What I say doesn't matter, any more than what you say matters.
What matters is, the nice cheap MP3 players were sold out. There were TONS of iPods and various other expensive players on the shelf.
Please don't describe my experience as being 'limited.' Yes, I have not been 'properly exposed' to the iPod. There are a lot of things I haven't bought into.
To be frank about it, I have too many good recordings in my collection to EVER have my 'entire music collection' on some little shiny device I bought last week. Those big boxes of vinyl albums aren't in an easily convertable digital format, and never will be. Let's not even get INTO the matter of all the acetate 78 RPM records.
If your entire 'music collection' is composed of CD-era and later music, then fine. Have your 'entire collection' on an iPod.
Definitely don't say my experience is limited, though.
You know, I think I remember there as being a brand of spackle called 'DAP'. Since we're on the subject of filling gaps.
(if a smooth sequence from track to track on 'Dark Side Of The Moon' really, REALLY bothers you, you should probably merge it all into one big WAV file and encode it as a single track anyway. You're gonna listen to it all as a complete work anyway, right?
(disclaimer- I had to quit listening to The White Album for a number of years, because of the trauma when 'Martha My Dear' on my vinyl copy developed a skip. The White Album MUST be listened to in it's entirety, with the only breaks being getting up to flip or switch the LP, and that skip represented a horrible train wreck)
I saw a player at WalMart last week that takes Compact Flash, and cost about $40.
There weren't any on the racks, though. They were all sold.
I think we have an iPod killer here, folks.
People who think they need to carry around their 'entire music collection' are being pretty anal. Build a 'playlist,' stuff it in your player, and go out and enjoy listening to it. The only people who need to carry their entire music collection with them at all times are the homeless.
A few years ago the republicans ( a handy term for people opposed to CO2 reduction efforts)
Yep. Handy for name-callers who just want to stir up the shit.
Is there an evil Republican under your bed at night? Is he going to eat you if you don't recite Mao as you tip-toe to the bathroom to relieve yourself? Don't wet your bed worrying about it.
People with vested interests have been trying to reframe the debate as if we needed empirical data demonstrating anthropogenic warming in order to justify action. That approach is potentially suicidal. Whether we can demonstrate anthroprogenic warming is largely an academic question.
So your point (stripping away all the needless $8 words you seem to love) is, even if it's not caused by the actions of people, we need to make BIG changes to prevent the change in climate.
And since you say 'ignore history' you don't want to acknowlede anything from the past that might shed light on what is happening.
That sounds reckless. You're proposing radical intervention in the climate and environment of the earth, even if it is proven that human practices are not the cause of the problem.
That sounds like the words of someone who wants to meddle in things no matter what. What if your large, centralized control structure, set up to channel human behavior along the lines chosen to 'change' and 'improve' things actually just makes things worse?
The big 'Global Warming' Chicken Little crowd want a big World-wide effort to be made to change things. That means building a big overall mechanism of Control. Big overeaching mechanisms of control have ALWAYS in the past been corrupted and used for bad purposes.
Are you sure you're not just an advocate of Central Planning out touting the latest excuse for your anthropocentric agenda? What if global warming is just the earth farting? Do we as humans have the right to stop it?
As for me I always look at the car. If a guy is drving a fice year old honda or a subaru (or even biking) he is more likely to tell me the truth then if he is driving a brand new BMW or a Mercedes.
Sounds like good old Class Warfare to me, and nothing more.
What did your teachers say in school about being prejudiced, again??
Yes. China has done an excellent thing by getting the talk out about 'Zero Emission Towns.' Now any time their emissions are brought up, they can continue generating huge amounts of pollution, since they are 'trying' something. Well, at least talking about it. Some.
A fully encrypted P2P service that masks a user's IP address would make it hard for "the man" to find those who are illegally filesharing.
Yes, but a scheme like that makes it equally difficult for 'peers' to find one another. Unless there is a way to invite in peers. Which law enforcement will penetrate. Same thing all over again.
And I don't think encouraging encryption is gonna be any good for national security.
Sure, it will be. The use of encryption will be a signal of dubious opportunity and law enforcement will know who to swoop down on: anybody generating encrypted traffic.
The problem will be that the real crooks will just use stenanography. But they already do. So there won't be any new problems.
I think we'd all be better off if we didn't have medical ethicists, and instead just asked ourselves, "what is legal?"
Indeed. Then all that will be necessary is to ban the study of 'Ethics' in academia, (declare it 'Terrorist Ideology' or something) and a more democratic, free community will prosper. To say nothing of the reduced R&D Costs in producing the 'optimal human' for Industrial and various other purposes.
To put things into perspective, a columnist during the past election cycle quoted her child as having said to her 'John Kerry wants to make medicine out of babies.'
Think about it. It's not that far off from the truth, even for those who pooh-pooh the origin of 'little bits of human tissue' as being irrelevant.
And, of course, comments like that have tremendous propaganda value when quoted to polarized subsections of the public.
It pisses me off when people stereotype other people, too.
Just give a hint that you may have voted for George W. Bush, for instance, and some people automatically assume you are a bloodthirsty war-advocate, and dress and look like the rich guy printed on the 'Community Chest' cards in the game Monopoly.
Well, the company that will be selling the printers and the paper to the state bribed congressman A. The company that will provide the service technicians needed to maintain the printers bribed congressman B.
I've torn apart several store bought PCs that were just out of warranty to fix hardware problems for friends and relatives
Well, duh. The machines you 'tore apart' are exclusively the ones that failed. Why should it surprise us that they were the ones made with real junk components?
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You might as well try to follow a symphony by reading the sheet music.
Actually, a few of us enjoy doing that from time to time.
And don't forget that Beethoven was deaf by the time he completed his Ninth Symphony. So he wrote a symphony by reading the sheet music.
And you were at Wal-Mart, which caters to the bottom end of the market.
They had iPods at Wal-Mart, too.
I agree that a botique store like the ones owned by Apple probably only has expensive players. That isn't where America shops.
It could, if your patch is designed specifically to omit all copyright notices in the kernel.
What I say doesn't matter, any more than what you say matters.
What matters is, the nice cheap MP3 players were sold out. There were TONS of iPods and various other expensive players on the shelf.
Please don't describe my experience as being 'limited.' Yes, I have not been 'properly exposed' to the iPod. There are a lot of things I haven't bought into.
To be frank about it, I have too many good recordings in my collection to EVER have my 'entire music collection' on some little shiny device I bought last week. Those big boxes of vinyl albums aren't in an easily convertable digital format, and never will be. Let's not even get INTO the matter of all the acetate 78 RPM records.
If your entire 'music collection' is composed of CD-era and later music, then fine. Have your 'entire collection' on an iPod.
Definitely don't say my experience is limited, though.
You know, I think I remember there as being a brand of spackle called 'DAP'. Since we're on the subject of filling gaps.
(if a smooth sequence from track to track on 'Dark Side Of The Moon' really, REALLY bothers you, you should probably merge it all into one big WAV file and encode it as a single track anyway. You're gonna listen to it all as a complete work anyway, right?
(disclaimer- I had to quit listening to The White Album for a number of years, because of the trauma when 'Martha My Dear' on my vinyl copy developed a skip. The White Album MUST be listened to in it's entirety, with the only breaks being getting up to flip or switch the LP, and that skip represented a horrible train wreck)
The iPOD represents and is a way of life.
I remember when the rich 'new wave' chicks started wearing the first sony walkmans around in the 'new wave/punk rawk' scene in 1979.
They thought they represented a 'new way of life.'
Most of them are now probably out fussing around deciding which SUV to buy this coming year.
I saw a player at WalMart last week that takes Compact Flash, and cost about $40.
There weren't any on the racks, though. They were all sold.
I think we have an iPod killer here, folks.
People who think they need to carry around their 'entire music collection' are being pretty anal. Build a 'playlist,' stuff it in your player, and go out and enjoy listening to it. The only people who need to carry their entire music collection with them at all times are the homeless.
Don't try to reason with him. He has a Karl Marx tagline.
Me, I think Henry George is a more amusing obsolete 19th Century Economist. But some people collect US Stamps, and some people collect Foreign Stamps.
A few years ago the republicans ( a handy term for people opposed to CO2 reduction efforts)
Yep. Handy for name-callers who just want to stir up the shit.
Is there an evil Republican under your bed at night? Is he going to eat you if you don't recite Mao as you tip-toe to the bathroom to relieve yourself? Don't wet your bed worrying about it.
People with vested interests have been trying to reframe the debate as if we needed empirical data demonstrating anthropogenic warming in order to justify action. That approach is potentially suicidal. Whether we can demonstrate anthroprogenic warming is largely an academic question.
So your point (stripping away all the needless $8 words you seem to love) is, even if it's not caused by the actions of people, we need to make BIG changes to prevent the change in climate.
And since you say 'ignore history' you don't want to acknowlede anything from the past that might shed light on what is happening.
That sounds reckless. You're proposing radical intervention in the climate and environment of the earth, even if it is proven that human practices are not the cause of the problem.
That sounds like the words of someone who wants to meddle in things no matter what. What if your large, centralized control structure, set up to channel human behavior along the lines chosen to 'change' and 'improve' things actually just makes things worse?
The big 'Global Warming' Chicken Little crowd want a big World-wide effort to be made to change things. That means building a big overall mechanism of Control. Big overeaching mechanisms of control have ALWAYS in the past been corrupted and used for bad purposes.
Are you sure you're not just an advocate of Central Planning out touting the latest excuse for your anthropocentric agenda? What if global warming is just the earth farting? Do we as humans have the right to stop it?
If you actually read the IPCC reports, and the peer reviewed criticisms
Translation: the echo chambers, filled with people who've remained sequestered from the real world all their lives.
You live in a fantasy world, peopled with parody opponents, who you have spun up in your own mind.
It's a sad, sad existence. We feel sorry for you.
As for me I always look at the car. If a guy is drving a fice year old honda or a subaru (or even biking) he is more likely to tell me the truth then if he is driving a brand new BMW or a Mercedes.
Sounds like good old Class Warfare to me, and nothing more.
What did your teachers say in school about being prejudiced, again??
Yes. China has done an excellent thing by getting the talk out about 'Zero Emission Towns.' Now any time their emissions are brought up, they can continue generating huge amounts of pollution, since they are 'trying' something. Well, at least talking about it. Some.
A fully encrypted P2P service that masks a user's IP address would make it hard for "the man" to find those who are illegally filesharing.
Yes, but a scheme like that makes it equally difficult for 'peers' to find one another. Unless there is a way to invite in peers. Which law enforcement will penetrate. Same thing all over again.
He qualified his remark. He spoke of Academic economists, i.e. those who nobody but a bureacracy will pay to 'be an economist.'
And I don't think encouraging encryption is gonna be any good for national security.
Sure, it will be. The use of encryption will be a signal of dubious opportunity and law enforcement will know who to swoop down on: anybody generating encrypted traffic.
The problem will be that the real crooks will just use stenanography. But they already do. So there won't be any new problems.
It's apparent from your tagline that that is indeed all you know about Bush.
I think we'd all be better off if we didn't have medical ethicists, and instead just asked ourselves, "what is legal?"
Indeed. Then all that will be necessary is to ban the study of 'Ethics' in academia, (declare it 'Terrorist Ideology' or something) and a more democratic, free community will prosper. To say nothing of the reduced R&D Costs in producing the 'optimal human' for Industrial and various other purposes.
ScuttleMonkey can't be marked down 'troll' and lose his +1 posting privledges.
In fact, people who slag that 'class' of slashdot 'community members' will find their comments 'modded down' with no reason listed.
If you haven't had a slashdot comment 'modded down without a reason given' yet, you're not trying hard enough.
Uh, smash the system.
Wow. Recursive trolls get marked 'funny' instead of just plain 'troll.'
To put things into perspective, a columnist during the past election cycle quoted her child as having said to her 'John Kerry wants to make medicine out of babies.'
Think about it. It's not that far off from the truth, even for those who pooh-pooh the origin of 'little bits of human tissue' as being irrelevant.
And, of course, comments like that have tremendous propaganda value when quoted to polarized subsections of the public.
It pisses me off when people stereotype other people, too.
Just give a hint that you may have voted for George W. Bush, for instance, and some people automatically assume you are a bloodthirsty war-advocate, and dress and look like the rich guy printed on the 'Community Chest' cards in the game Monopoly.
Well, the company that will be selling the printers and the paper to the state bribed congressman A. The company that will provide the service technicians needed to maintain the printers bribed congressman B.
Does that partially answer your question?
I've torn apart several store bought PCs that were just out of warranty to fix hardware problems for friends and relatives
Well, duh. The machines you 'tore apart' are exclusively the ones that failed. Why should it surprise us that they were the ones made with real junk components?