I mostly use long filenames. The files are spread over various computers. For instance, I have an old computer which lets me connect a turntable and sample old 78rpm jazz recordings, I then do a bit of audio processing (to sort out the frequency response) and save the files. I don't see itunes making this any easier as it will not install on the cronky old kit. Other computers and devices have different sets of files. If i suddenly get the urge to listen to Harry Roy's Ragged Tigermuffins in the car, I pull the SD card out of the car radio and stuff it into the laptop, then if i am in my drive I can get the track over wifi from the cronky machine's share. If i am away from home i can use my cellphone to ssh into another machine and mount the cronky share, then scp the file. I suppose I could buy an ipod big enough to hold everything, but I would have to do the id3 tags on craploads of recordings.
Thanks for the analogy, made me smile. Once one has rustled up ones own salt and vinegar crisps, would one put them into a paper bag marked 'iTunes' and then praise itunes for handling one's crisps so elegantly? 'itunes crisp bag is awesome! I would hate to eat from a bowl or a plate like some kind of retard when wonderful itunes keeps all my crisps in a handy-dandy package.'
It still seems that itunes can only 'handle all my files' if I do the donkey work of setting up a load of shares and mount points for it.
Heh. I like my music on the go. Phone, car audio player and pocket mp3 player can all play my mp3s. I have tried an ipod, but i got too annoyed at the menu navigation weirdness. Is up/down/select/back too difficult for apple? As i recall, 'back' involved pressing 'menu'. This jarred as I was already in the menu. And there was no on/off switch, although you could get a 'suspend but slowly drain the battery' mode by holding down 'play'. Really intuitive.
Well, good luck with a) getting a chance to vote on any actual issues b) being allowed to see data (as opposed to heavily tweaked interpretations of data) in order to make a decision about a) c) having a fair vote casting process ( ie who gets to vote and how many votes they can cast ) d) having the votes counted fairly e) having the result of the vote acted upon. ( ie if the totalitarian policy is unpopular and is voted down, keep having referenda on the issue until it finally scrapes through, enact it, then never have a referendum on that issue again)
How the heck is the ipod easiest to use? I bought an mp3 player and it just mounts as a volume when I plug it into whatever computer i happen to be using, just like my last few phones have done. If i had an ipod (which would cost more than my £20 mp3 player), I would have to install itunes on every damned computer ( and maybe an OS that supported it ). I don't know about your tunes, but mine are binary files. They are managed like any other binary file.
Maybe the person concerned just didn't think it through enough to make it funny? A warning of a tsunami that was six months away, or that would hit only a tiny and highly specific area, would have been funny.Well, funnier. Maybe.
Heh, the more my cousins/colleagues/etc use FB ( and I don't ), the more likely it is that they will forget my phone number and email. Hopefully, they will forget my home address and existence also. That would be awesome.
Yeah, all our incompetents are in the hundreds of layers of management. The manual workers, because we abolished promotion-from-the-ranks decades ago, get pretty good at the jobs they will do forever (until they get downsized).
Oy! The money is pocketed because of scale. Go to texaco and buy 1,000,000 gallons of gas at $2.499 and you will pay $2,499,000 Sell those gallons individually at $2.499 and you take in $2.50 each because of rounding. Total income $2,500,000. OMG! A THOUSAND DOLLARS FROM NOWHERE!!!!11 The banks do a similar thing with money.
Don't be ridiculous. I will wait until the apple store offers to duct tape it on for me for $50. They will use special apple duct tape that is SO much better than ordinary plebeian duct tape.
Well duh! Periodically accelerate to 100mph, then stick it into neutral and switch the engine off. Check your phone while coasting. If you crash due to steering lock/no servo brakes/no power steering, you can use your phone to call for help.
Pry the black box out of a vehicle and stick it in your pocket with a battery and you won't have to put up with idiots shouting into their cellphones in your train carriage/bus/cinema/restaurant.
OMG! OMG! corbettw is a evil terrorist! Halp! Quick, send in the stormtroopers! Bring in more ill-conceived and restrictive laws! Won't someone think of the children?
A friend got issued an iPhone 4 by his employers. I found the handset surprisingly sharp-edged, heavy and uncomfortable. Seriously, I would have guessed at it being some cheap knock-off from an unknown company if i didn't know better.
The UK should be researching time travel instead. Then they could go back fifty years and prevent the UK aerospace industry (with its stand-off missiles, supersonic VTOL close support aircraft, supersonic all-weather low-level strike aircraft, hybrid jet/rocket interceptors, reusable spaceplanes etc) from being scrapped. Who knew that those things would ever be any use?
Well, there are more weapons and the ability to conceal them has grown. I refer of course to the oppressive laws and the huge increase in secrecy that government has bought with our money.
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I mostly use long filenames. The files are spread over various computers. For instance, I have an old computer which lets me connect a turntable and sample old 78rpm jazz recordings, I then do a bit of audio processing (to sort out the frequency response) and save the files. I don't see itunes making this any easier as it will not install on the cronky old kit. Other computers and devices have different sets of files.
If i suddenly get the urge to listen to Harry Roy's Ragged Tigermuffins in the car, I pull the SD card out of the car radio and stuff it into the laptop, then if i am in my drive I can get the track over wifi from the cronky machine's share. If i am away from home i can use my cellphone to ssh into another machine and mount the cronky share, then scp the file. I suppose I could buy an ipod big enough to hold everything, but I would have to do the id3 tags on craploads of recordings.
Thanks for the analogy, made me smile. Once one has rustled up ones own salt and vinegar crisps, would one put them into a paper bag marked 'iTunes' and then praise itunes for handling one's crisps so elegantly? 'itunes crisp bag is awesome! I would hate to eat from a bowl or a plate like some kind of retard when wonderful itunes keeps all my crisps in a handy-dandy package.'
It still seems that itunes can only 'handle all my files' if I do the donkey work of setting up a load of shares and mount points for it.
Heh. I like my music on the go. Phone, car audio player and pocket mp3 player can all play my mp3s. I have tried an ipod, but i got too annoyed at the menu navigation weirdness. Is up/down/select/back too difficult for apple? As i recall, 'back' involved pressing 'menu'. This jarred as I was already in the menu. And there was no on/off switch, although you could get a 'suspend but slowly drain the battery' mode by holding down 'play'. Really intuitive.
Lol, UPS subcontracts just like everyone else. Been there, done that (been in a company that subcontracts from UPS, not been a forklift driver).
Well, good luck with
a) getting a chance to vote on any actual issues
b) being allowed to see data (as opposed to heavily tweaked interpretations of data) in order to make a decision about a)
c) having a fair vote casting process ( ie who gets to vote and how many votes they can cast )
d) having the votes counted fairly
e) having the result of the vote acted upon. ( ie if the totalitarian policy is unpopular and is voted down, keep having referenda on the issue until it finally scrapes through, enact it, then never have a referendum on that issue again)
How the heck is the ipod easiest to use? I bought an mp3 player and it just mounts as a volume when I plug it into whatever computer i happen to be using, just like my last few phones have done. If i had an ipod (which would cost more than my £20 mp3 player), I would have to install itunes on every damned computer ( and maybe an OS that supported it ). I don't know about your tunes, but mine are binary files. They are managed like any other binary file.
Maybe the person concerned just didn't think it through enough to make it funny? A warning of a tsunami that was six months away, or that would hit only a tiny and highly specific area, would have been funny.Well, funnier. Maybe.
Heh, the more my cousins/colleagues/etc use FB ( and I don't ), the more likely it is that they will forget my phone number and email. Hopefully, they will forget my home address and existence also. That would be awesome.
Yeah, all our incompetents are in the hundreds of layers of management. The manual workers, because we abolished promotion-from-the-ranks decades ago, get pretty good at the jobs they will do forever (until they get downsized).
Yoink! Xtree gold flashback!
Yeah, xtree was a must for dos.
Pah! Moore is the only Bond worth watching. You can see he is amused by, and thus acknowledges, the stupidity of the film he is in.
Yes, we will be going along the happy-sunshine road in make-believe-land.
Oy! The money is pocketed because of scale.
Go to texaco and buy 1,000,000 gallons of gas at $2.499 and you will pay $2,499,000
Sell those gallons individually at $2.499 and you take in $2.50 each because of rounding. Total income $2,500,000. OMG! A THOUSAND DOLLARS FROM NOWHERE!!!!11
The banks do a similar thing with money.
Hey, at least get your terminology right, those guys didn't spend all that time at Gooning classes to be called 'thugs'.
Next time, take a broken hard drive with you. That will give them a challenge. :-)
Don't be ridiculous. I will wait until the apple store offers to duct tape it on for me for $50. They will use special apple duct tape that is SO much better than ordinary plebeian duct tape.
Well duh! Periodically accelerate to 100mph, then stick it into neutral and switch the engine off. Check your phone while coasting. If you crash due to steering lock/no servo brakes/no power steering, you can use your phone to call for help.
Remove the scrambler and sell it on ebay to pranksters.
Pry the black box out of a vehicle and stick it in your pocket with a battery and you won't have to put up with idiots shouting into their cellphones in your train carriage/bus/cinema/restaurant.
OMG! OMG! corbettw is a evil terrorist! Halp! Quick, send in the stormtroopers! Bring in more ill-conceived and restrictive laws! Won't someone think of the children?
A friend got issued an iPhone 4 by his employers. I found the handset surprisingly sharp-edged, heavy and uncomfortable. Seriously, I would have guessed at it being some cheap knock-off from an unknown company if i didn't know better.
The UK should be researching time travel instead. Then they could go back fifty years and prevent the UK aerospace industry (with its stand-off missiles, supersonic VTOL close support aircraft, supersonic all-weather low-level strike aircraft, hybrid jet/rocket interceptors, reusable spaceplanes etc) from being scrapped. Who knew that those things would ever be any use?
Blimey. My facetiousness was wasted, then. I feel a right berk.
Well, there are more weapons and the ability to conceal them has grown. I refer of course to the oppressive laws and the huge increase in secrecy that government has bought with our money.
Yipe! With all that money, he can't hire PR staff to deal with interviews like this?