Actually I was just hoping to catch you, like this.
You are a *fanboy* but of a completely different app. Irrational dislike of something you know little about? Check! Proclaiming that your solution is the most easy/best/far superior without acknowledging that something may be similar? Check! Resorting to calling people names when questioned or proven wrong? Check! Immediately discounting features of other software/products/goods because they don't fit *your* model of ideal? Check!
Say you have 217 songs in iTunes with various caps of a band name, with one word wrong:
ThreE SiX mafIaaa 3 6 MafiAa three six mafiaa
In iTunes you enter "mafi" in the search field, glance down and if only the songs you want show up, hit AppleKey+A, AppleKey+I and change the band name (or any other field for all these) to "Three Six Mafia". That's 6 keystrokes+the meta info you enter to change all 217 tracks, four of which were the search criteria. Of course that's across the whole library if you only wanted to change one genre you would click it first, adding one more step.
Perhaps you should actually use it* before being so disparaging?
Hey can you do this in gtkpod?
Every song from 1998-2001 that has Love in the title which was played more than 60 days ago, is over 2 minutes long, has at least a 50% rating, which isn't part of a compilation and has no comments, given an extra tag of "NEVERPLAYAGAIN"?
'Cuz you can easily in iTunes.
* By use it I don't mean fire it up, see the interface is different, and proclaim is to be sucktakular... *really* use it.
Having played both WoW and EVE, I can say with 100% certainty that you're full of shit.
Having played both, and many other online games, I can say with 100% certainty that you're the reason I avoid such games.
Any MMORPG has a meta-game, it's which one appeals to you. Obviously EVE's appeals to you, probably it's your need and desire to be combative and ignore viewpoints which don't mirror your own exactly by attacking the person, rather than simply expressing which you disagree with. A game where it is respected to cheat your friends sometimes (oh but the corp world is so dangerous and true to life!) fills some basic need you can't get in the real world.
EVE's PVP results in the destruction of items, which gives crafting and finding new items some point - where in most mature WOW servers you'll find 90+% of the items that can drop find themselves recycled via enchanting into essences/dusts, or sold to a vendor for raw currency.
Exactly. Which system results in the removal of resources more? One where people have to be willing to risk their own hard fought resources, or one where if something is of no use to the owner is destroyed or sold for a trivial amount? The WoW system (and any game which has a BoP concept) is far more like real world depreciation.
After reading the report it is surprising that this would be interesting to someone who specialized in economics. In fact EVE's single universe is what contributes to the simplicity of their market. The report makes a great deal of todo about the information spreading extremely rapidly and causing price effect changes over the vast universe in near synergy... uh duh? It's a game universe with instant communications that has very little barriers to trading across loyalities or "factions". EVE's market is simple and the macro report provided backs this up easily.
As bad as the typical WoW market is, it's much more interesting. There are two factions who have limited ability to share things between each other without extra cost and time investment. In addition these faction markets are often vastly different in size/resources so one has a huge trade advantage (think US/China). The markets have "peaks" that are broken with major patches or content, think of them as a revolutionary tech or invention that shatters current markets (50 new points of skills or what have you == automobile/electricity). Each server can have a very distinct economy somewhat based on the overall player progression and server creation date (intelligence/connectedness of the average player). Finally many servers have economies that are driven largely by two or three individuals... while some are missing these power players. The vast difference in each server's economy seems to me, like it would be much more interesting and have much more information/knowledge to impart.
Definitely calling the WoW Mac client a port is incorrect. The Mac version actually has more features (iTunes support built in) currently. The next major client release (for 2.2) adds video recording/encoding to the Mac client, this is still a ways off on the PC side.
You remember all that, the letter order doesn't matter when reading bit? (http://www.languagehat.com/archives/000840.php for a refresher).
It's always seemed pretty apparent to me that we don't reach letters in "correct order" by focusing only on a single one at a time. If that were the case things like speed-reading and scanning for content would be nearly impossible. Outside confirmation of this is nice however.
The real question is how much redundancy can we remove from printed words for faster information dispersal while still expressing things clearly. Sure, having everything spelled correctly and in long form is great for books for pleasure (art) but do we really need it for basic information sharing? Especially if doing so increases the time spent needlessly?
I would imagine that iTunes is great for the casual user that doesn't need nor want much MANUAL control over their music library
Give it up!
Manual control of the library was great, when it was actually needed back in the 90s. What on Earth do people honestly believe they still need manual control for? To find the files? They are placed in a very logical structure. For splitting a huge library across mulitlpe locations? Use symlinks.
Bitching about needing manual control is like bitching about your car having an electric starter. It's quant... and sad at the same time.
I've never quite understood the tech luddites on/. it's like they learn *one* way to do something and will fight until they die to only do it that way because it most obviously has to be the best.
You know...I've often wondered why kids of today, aren't as into getting good sound reproduction, as they were when I grew up.
Short answer:
Because unless you had especially well connected friends or super hip parents you had much less of a sampling pool. It was important for each song to sound as well as possible since you would be hearing it, much, more often. Today's kids/teens have a huge wealth of music, even in the pop arena.
Well he did say conditons have improved. This may not mean much to us, but it was already well known that foxconn had some of the best factory conditions in the entire industry over there. Do these conditions really meet what we would consider ideal? No, but an improvement is an improvement. I would submit that most Americans have no idea how bad factory work is, even without our own country. If you want to be truly disgusted by the treatment of workers and the quality of their environment take yourself to the nearest chicken factory or any other "plant" with is obviously skirting the edges of legality.
China moves slow traditionally but as they develop a real middle class, the lower class conditions will improve becaue of increased internal spending and more attitudes similiar to those in more developed nations.
Actually I think if you follow the logic course of our current evolution as well as observing network theories, a singularity type event is all but assured. Consider that within the next 10-15 years everyone in a first world country will have a decent network connection on their person at all times. The sharing of human experience is set to rise exponentially with just that small leap. What will the world be like when *everyone* is networked? What comes next? What happens when we no longer need to use our fingers or words to start up these shared experiences?
Perhaps there aren't many woman in large groupings of IT positions because those positions suck?
There aren't really very many people in the world for whom the concept of being on call and only being visible to the organization when the shit hits the fan who would find such work appealing. IT is a very mixed bag. Most of the time it is a very low key position with not too many hard deadlines. Then someone breaks and the stress level rises significantly. Then something else breaks in the same window and you quickly outrun your human resources, because few companies actually plan for worst case IT failures. During those windows, everyone is screaming at the IT department, every mistake is logged and magnified, basically you are a whipping boy until you "save the day".
A lot of posters seem to miss what I feel was the true saving grace of WoW, heroic mode dungeons. It's no secret that once you hit 70 and gear up, if you aren't a blubbering moron WoW becomes obvious for how simple it is. If you have been gaming for years, the only challenge you might find is rolling with a crappy group or some pvp encounters. Before BC you could be a *really* good WoW player but unless you raided you were essentially shut out from some of the best gear and by proxy were at a disadvantage in pvp (unless you were willing to grind insane amounts of time).
Heroic content, get this, can actually be quite hard. The concept at first seems flawed. "Oh boy monsters that can one shot people and are higher level, woopity." But the reality is that it forces each member of a 5 man group to be competent and for many of the more difficult encounters actually skilled. Because of the difficulty a 5 man player, non-raider, who only plays a few hours a week can actually attain gear on par with people who do raid days a week. Is this fair? In my opinion it is, the challenge of most raid content is learning the encounter and the logistics involved. The challenge in heroic 5 man content is each player making very few mistakes over the course of an entire run and playing their class and talent spec extremely well.
Heroics aren't all perfect but as a first go they show a real understanding on Blizzard's part that players can be rewarded for skill and not just grinding/time invested. One of the biggest flaws is the rep requirements for running them, while normal questing will get you close on a few of them, some do require you to go out of your way to achieve. In addition it is possible to "wipe" your way through content if your group sucks, it takes forever and costs a fortune in repairs, but it is possible.
I've raided in WoW and found it to be lacking, learning an encounter is fun and the first few kills are thrilling, but the time investment is quite insane. The same thrill comes to me from a really good heroic run, say one where everyone is top notch and you blow through a place with no deaths at a blistering pace.
WoW isn't perfect, but it is a hell of a lot better since BC. If the same level of improvement comes with the next expansion it will be very hard for anything other than "tiredness of the story/world/lore" to unseat them as #1 in America.
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Patiently waiting for you to point out/prove how it is better.
I don't have an apple key, you insensitive clod.
Then... I dunno... use the window's meta key equivelant?
Actually I was just hoping to catch you, like this.
You are a *fanboy* but of a completely different app. Irrational dislike of something you know little about? Check! Proclaiming that your solution is the most easy/best/far superior without acknowledging that something may be similar? Check! Resorting to calling people names when questioned or proven wrong? Check! Immediately discounting features of other software/products/goods because they don't fit *your* model of ideal? Check!
Hope this helps!
Explain how it's renaming is better?
Say you have 217 songs in iTunes with various caps of a band name, with one word wrong:
ThreE SiX mafIaaa
3 6 MafiAa
three six mafiaa
In iTunes you enter "mafi" in the search field, glance down and if only the songs you want show up, hit AppleKey+A, AppleKey+I and change the band name (or any other field for all these) to "Three Six Mafia". That's 6 keystrokes+the meta info you enter to change all 217 tracks, four of which were the search criteria. Of course that's across the whole library if you only wanted to change one genre you would click it first, adding one more step.
What's the revolutionary step in gtkPod?
ITunes can do every single thing you just listed.
Perhaps you should actually use it* before being so disparaging?
Hey can you do this in gtkpod?
Every song from 1998-2001 that has Love in the title which was played more than 60 days ago, is over 2 minutes long, has at least a 50% rating, which isn't part of a compilation and has no comments, given an extra tag of "NEVERPLAYAGAIN"?
'Cuz you can easily in iTunes.
* By use it I don't mean fire it up, see the interface is different, and proclaim is to be sucktakular... *really* use it.
Having played both WoW and EVE, I can say with 100% certainty that you're full of shit.
Having played both, and many other online games, I can say with 100% certainty that you're the reason I avoid such games.
Any MMORPG has a meta-game, it's which one appeals to you. Obviously EVE's appeals to you, probably it's your need and desire to be combative and ignore viewpoints which don't mirror your own exactly by attacking the person, rather than simply expressing which you disagree with. A game where it is respected to cheat your friends sometimes (oh but the corp world is so dangerous and true to life!) fills some basic need you can't get in the real world.
Tis a shame. *hugs*.
EVE's PVP results in the destruction of items, which gives crafting and finding new items some point - where in most mature WOW servers you'll find 90+% of the items that can drop find themselves recycled via enchanting into essences/dusts, or sold to a vendor for raw currency.
Exactly. Which system results in the removal of resources more? One where people have to be willing to risk their own hard fought resources, or one where if something is of no use to the owner is destroyed or sold for a trivial amount? The WoW system (and any game which has a BoP concept) is far more like real world depreciation.
After reading the report it is surprising that this would be interesting to someone who specialized in economics. In fact EVE's single universe is what contributes to the simplicity of their market. The report makes a great deal of todo about the information spreading extremely rapidly and causing price effect changes over the vast universe in near synergy... uh duh? It's a game universe with instant communications that has very little barriers to trading across loyalities or "factions". EVE's market is simple and the macro report provided backs this up easily.
As bad as the typical WoW market is, it's much more interesting. There are two factions who have limited ability to share things between each other without extra cost and time investment. In addition these faction markets are often vastly different in size/resources so one has a huge trade advantage (think US/China). The markets have "peaks" that are broken with major patches or content, think of them as a revolutionary tech or invention that shatters current markets (50 new points of skills or what have you == automobile/electricity). Each server can have a very distinct economy somewhat based on the overall player progression and server creation date (intelligence/connectedness of the average player). Finally many servers have economies that are driven largely by two or three individuals... while some are missing these power players. The vast difference in each server's economy seems to me, like it would be much more interesting and have much more information/knowledge to impart.
Definitely calling the WoW Mac client a port is incorrect. The Mac version actually has more features (iTunes support built in) currently. The next major client release (for 2.2) adds video recording/encoding to the Mac client, this is still a ways off on the PC side.
Are you really this obtuse?
Wait, just checked your posting history, yes, yes you are.
*hugs* good luck with life!
You remember all that, the letter order doesn't matter when reading bit? (http://www.languagehat.com/archives/000840.php for a refresher).
It's always seemed pretty apparent to me that we don't reach letters in "correct order" by focusing only on a single one at a time. If that were the case things like speed-reading and scanning for content would be nearly impossible. Outside confirmation of this is nice however.
The real question is how much redundancy can we remove from printed words for faster information dispersal while still expressing things clearly. Sure, having everything spelled correctly and in long form is great for books for pleasure (art) but do we really need it for basic information sharing? Especially if doing so increases the time spent needlessly?
Because the iPhone is marketed as an always "online" device?
Congrats on finding enough retarded people, besides yourself, to get to plus 5 by posting complete and utter tripe.
If you really want to hurt your brain:
o ice_experiment
u m_eraser
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheeler's_delayed_ch
Followed by:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delayed_choice_quant
Simply, things behave in ways that are impossible to describe in our current deterministic view of the universe, hence spooky.
I would imagine that iTunes is great for the casual user that doesn't need nor want much MANUAL control over their music library
/. it's like they learn *one* way to do something and will fight until they die to only do it that way because it most obviously has to be the best.
Give it up!
Manual control of the library was great, when it was actually needed back in the 90s. What on Earth do people honestly believe they still need manual control for? To find the files? They are placed in a very logical structure. For splitting a huge library across mulitlpe locations? Use symlinks.
Bitching about needing manual control is like bitching about your car having an electric starter. It's quant... and sad at the same time.
I've never quite understood the tech luddites on
LOL u mispelt tempear
You know...I've often wondered why kids of today, aren't as into getting good sound reproduction, as they were when I grew up.
Short answer:
Because unless you had especially well connected friends or super hip parents you had much less of a sampling pool. It was important for each song to sound as well as possible since you would be hearing it, much, more often. Today's kids/teens have a huge wealth of music, even in the pop arena.
Too bad the great wipe killed all our super low IDs!
Some "guy" who works at at&t told some "blog" something was crippled as to not show up something else.
Fancy pants reporting there!
Well he did say conditons have improved. This may not mean much to us, but it was already well known that foxconn had some of the best factory conditions in the entire industry over there. Do these conditions really meet what we would consider ideal? No, but an improvement is an improvement. I would submit that most Americans have no idea how bad factory work is, even without our own country. If you want to be truly disgusted by the treatment of workers and the quality of their environment take yourself to the nearest chicken factory or any other "plant" with is obviously skirting the edges of legality.
China moves slow traditionally but as they develop a real middle class, the lower class conditions will improve becaue of increased internal spending and more attitudes similiar to those in more developed nations.
I realize the point you are trying to make however...
Victims of 9/11: 40,000/y. Traffic is equivalent to 80 bin Ladens.
Bin Laden needed one day to complete his nearly 3k kill.
Perhaps it would be better if you listed the number of Iraqis killed or US Troop deaths.
Nazi.
(Took almost an hour it seems)
Actually I think if you follow the logic course of our current evolution as well as observing network theories, a singularity type event is all but assured. Consider that within the next 10-15 years everyone in a first world country will have a decent network connection on their person at all times. The sharing of human experience is set to rise exponentially with just that small leap. What will the world be like when *everyone* is networked? What comes next? What happens when we no longer need to use our fingers or words to start up these shared experiences?
Perhaps there aren't many woman in large groupings of IT positions because those positions suck?
There aren't really very many people in the world for whom the concept of being on call and only being visible to the organization when the shit hits the fan who would find such work appealing. IT is a very mixed bag. Most of the time it is a very low key position with not too many hard deadlines. Then someone breaks and the stress level rises significantly. Then something else breaks in the same window and you quickly outrun your human resources, because few companies actually plan for worst case IT failures. During those windows, everyone is screaming at the IT department, every mistake is logged and magnified, basically you are a whipping boy until you "save the day".
A lot of posters seem to miss what I feel was the true saving grace of WoW, heroic mode dungeons. It's no secret that once you hit 70 and gear up, if you aren't a blubbering moron WoW becomes obvious for how simple it is. If you have been gaming for years, the only challenge you might find is rolling with a crappy group or some pvp encounters. Before BC you could be a *really* good WoW player but unless you raided you were essentially shut out from some of the best gear and by proxy were at a disadvantage in pvp (unless you were willing to grind insane amounts of time).
Heroic content, get this, can actually be quite hard. The concept at first seems flawed. "Oh boy monsters that can one shot people and are higher level, woopity." But the reality is that it forces each member of a 5 man group to be competent and for many of the more difficult encounters actually skilled. Because of the difficulty a 5 man player, non-raider, who only plays a few hours a week can actually attain gear on par with people who do raid days a week. Is this fair? In my opinion it is, the challenge of most raid content is learning the encounter and the logistics involved. The challenge in heroic 5 man content is each player making very few mistakes over the course of an entire run and playing their class and talent spec extremely well.
Heroics aren't all perfect but as a first go they show a real understanding on Blizzard's part that players can be rewarded for skill and not just grinding/time invested. One of the biggest flaws is the rep requirements for running them, while normal questing will get you close on a few of them, some do require you to go out of your way to achieve. In addition it is possible to "wipe" your way through content if your group sucks, it takes forever and costs a fortune in repairs, but it is possible.
I've raided in WoW and found it to be lacking, learning an encounter is fun and the first few kills are thrilling, but the time investment is quite insane. The same thrill comes to me from a really good heroic run, say one where everyone is top notch and you blow through a place with no deaths at a blistering pace.
WoW isn't perfect, but it is a hell of a lot better since BC. If the same level of improvement comes with the next expansion it will be very hard for anything other than "tiredness of the story/world/lore" to unseat them as #1 in America.
What kind of a moron are you?
Do you think women *actually* believe me when I say that? Have you actually ever had any contact with the opposite sex? It's flirting, douche.