How would you like it if you had a real nice and clean well documented codebase and you gave it to someone for free, the only stipulation - if you make some changes please give them back to us also. The guys you give your code to do make changes and do give them back. Problem is the code they give back is all over the place and badly (if even) commented. Then other people (your users) start complaining "this other guys software is better than yours, but hes using your code. Give us those features NOW." ?
I'm looking at building my own MythTV setup, but in a pound for pound first look (based only on the articles), this may make a good choice. On the other hand it will be interesting to see what Sony counters with.
Do you know of a good USB TV card supported by Linux? No internal expansion slots on this baby.
have you missed the sales figures for ipods vs everything else?
Better marketting does not mean its a better product. Marketting sells believe it or not. And Apple have so far been the winners in the mp3 player marketting war. Next thing you'll be saying Windows is better than *insert other OS here*
Read the studies/reviews/etc.. there's no better UI than the iPod. Have you used one? Try it. Go on, it won't affect your closed mind.
I have used one for a short amount of time and I didn't find "spin the wheel to do stuff" intuitive whatsoever. Obviously YMMV.
How about the amount of hassle required to get your music on one of those other players? MusicMatch Jukebox? WMP? RealPlayer? WinAMP? I don't think so, they all have cruddy interfaces that have not been thought out very well. Dragging music from one folder into another in Explorer has got to be the worst way to have to think about your music. You mean you can't make a playlist in your music prgram and then drag it over to your mp3 player? What's that, you need to go through folders on your hard drive until you've assembled the songs from that playlist and then drag them over in the right order that you want them to play? How sad.
How quaint that you use playlists. Don't know about you but I don't know what mood I'll be in in half an hour. I carry all my music with me and choose what I want to listen to there and then. Also I listen mostly to full albums at a time. I don't see the point in taking the time to sort out a playlist when the artists I listen to have already conveniently made one for me.
Do they play.mp4 or.aif? All my exports from the music studio are in.aif, and I rip most of my CDs to.mp4 because it sounds a bit better at the same bit rate, and takes up less space on my HD.
As unpopular as it may be around here when I bought an mp3 player I wanted to play mp3s on it - not oggs, aiffs, aacs or any other crud. I already have all my music in high quality mp3s - why would I want another damn format?
We sell those other devices at the store I work at. We have sold 3 since January. We sell over 30 iPods a day. Tell me that all these people are just following a trend, that not one of them has done their homework and research to see which mp3 player is the best overall.
Wow. One example from your experience and thats gospel?
Acessories? Let's see now.. what can you get for those other players? mmm.. not much, if anything. We have over 200 accessories for different models of iPod.. cases, FM stuff, camera crap, custom-designed speakers, all sorts of items that just won't work with those other players.
Accessories? I suppose if people will buy camera phones they'll buy anything. I bought an mp3 player 3 years ago. I'm still happy with it and I have never even thought of buying any accessories of any sort. I already had a car cassette adapter - which was the only one I could have possibly have wanted.
Absolutely position a white image over black text on a page with a white background using javascript. Can google tell what words on the page are covered?
Thats all those asshats at VIA ever do - point teh finger at someone else. I've never seen them fix a single reported issues with any chipset, except maybe two years later - by which time i've made the machine into a headless linux box anyway.
Yeah American terrorism is +3 funny. Oh, my mistake. If such an act is committed by the American military its no longer considered terrorism - merely "liberation", "installing democracy" or "anti-terrorism". ha ha.
Does anyone else find it a little strange that the country with the largest ratio of guns to people on earth is also the country that has has its finger on the trigger of every major international political coup in living memory?
How does mass importing of American goods improve any countries economy (except the USA - oh, and China)? I know thats probably not what you meant, but its what you seem to be inferring.
No offence but you havent a clue what youre talking about. Putting local farmers on the internet will not make one whit of difference to finding customers, and knowing what the market price is doesnt help either. Why? Farmers cant ship their goods to their customers - its too costly. Only bulk retailers can do that (read slaughterhouses, co-ops, creameries/dairies, etc.) Therefore they are dependent on their local bulk supplier - of which there is usually only one. Knowing what the going price on the internet of your carrots should be is useless if your co-op will only pay you half that. What do you do? You can complain all you like - or not sell your vegetables and bury them.
I dont know about you, but i never sit down and take the time to watch or study screensavers. they usually appear when i'm away from the computer. in fact usually when im away poer-saving mode kicks in.
in fact i fail to see any point in such frivolous eye-candy. sure you can do it, but why would you want to? plus thats just about the worst way i can imagine to view / read news. its like ads on TV.
I take it you haven't taken part in the Slashdot one-day pass to the Mysterious Future then? You get to join subscribers in seeing the news before its made available to all for a full day - the price? Watch some silly ad.
Pity about your lack of grammar skills. Parents grammar parses just fine, although parentheses or dashes would have been made it clearer, rather than commas. For the record, you made me grin - just for the effort - but you've a long way to go to even claim to be emulating Monty Python.
No one - bar perhaps Billy Connolly - is funny all the time. And funnily enough, James Bond was never designed to be a comedy. Give the poor guy a break, he's just trying to make some money without going insane trying to make every last thing imaginable humourous.
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How would you like it if you had a real nice and clean well documented codebase and you gave it to someone for free, the only stipulation - if you make some changes please give them back to us also. The guys you give your code to do make changes and do give them back. Problem is the code they give back is all over the place and badly (if even) commented. Then other people (your users) start complaining "this other guys software is better than yours, but hes using your code. Give us those features NOW." ?
I'm looking at building my own MythTV setup, but in a pound for pound first look (based only on the articles), this may make a good choice. On the other hand it will be interesting to see what Sony counters with.
Do you know of a good USB TV card supported by Linux? No internal expansion slots on this baby.
I've possibly missed something but how does this effect FreeBSD/amd64?
but.. dude, it exploded in his pocket
Not unless he was wearing his bed at the time.
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have you missed the sales figures for ipods vs everything else?
Better marketting does not mean its a better product. Marketting sells believe it or not. And Apple have so far been the winners in the mp3 player marketting war. Next thing you'll be saying Windows is better than *insert other OS here*
I hereby nominate you for Internet Argument Olympics President for 2006. Will anyone second it?
Read the studies/reviews/etc.. there's no better UI than the iPod. Have you used one? Try it. Go on, it won't affect your closed mind.
I have used one for a short amount of time and I didn't find "spin the wheel to do stuff" intuitive whatsoever. Obviously YMMV.
How about the amount of hassle required to get your music on one of those other players? MusicMatch Jukebox? WMP? RealPlayer? WinAMP? I don't think so, they all have cruddy interfaces that have not been thought out very well. Dragging music from one folder into another in Explorer has got to be the worst way to have to think about your music. You mean you can't make a playlist in your music prgram and then drag it over to your mp3 player? What's that, you need to go through folders on your hard drive until you've assembled the songs from that playlist and then drag them over in the right order that you want them to play? How sad.
How quaint that you use playlists. Don't know about you but I don't know what mood I'll be in in half an hour. I carry all my music with me and choose what I want to listen to there and then. Also I listen mostly to full albums at a time. I don't see the point in taking the time to sort out a playlist when the artists I listen to have already conveniently made one for me.
Do they play .mp4 or .aif? All my exports from the music studio are in .aif, and I rip most of my CDs to .mp4 because it sounds a bit better at the same bit rate, and takes up less space on my HD.
As unpopular as it may be around here when I bought an mp3 player I wanted to play mp3s on it - not oggs, aiffs, aacs or any other crud. I already have all my music in high quality mp3s - why would I want another damn format?
We sell those other devices at the store I work at. We have sold 3 since January. We sell over 30 iPods a day. Tell me that all these people are just following a trend, that not one of them has done their homework and research to see which mp3 player is the best overall.
Wow. One example from your experience and thats gospel?
Acessories? Let's see now.. what can you get for those other players? mmm.. not much, if anything. We have over 200 accessories for different models of iPod.. cases, FM stuff, camera crap, custom-designed speakers, all sorts of items that just won't work with those other players.
Accessories? I suppose if people will buy camera phones they'll buy anything. I bought an mp3 player 3 years ago. I'm still happy with it and I have never even thought of buying any accessories of any sort. I already had a car cassette adapter - which was the only one I could have possibly have wanted.
Those poor other players.
Those poor apple zealots.
Absolutely position a white image over black text on a page with a white background using javascript. Can google tell what words on the page are covered?
Thats all those asshats at VIA ever do - point teh finger at someone else. I've never seen them fix a single reported issues with any chipset, except maybe two years later - by which time i've made the machine into a headless linux box anyway.
Yeah American terrorism is +3 funny. Oh, my mistake. If such an act is committed by the American military its no longer considered terrorism - merely "liberation", "installing democracy" or "anti-terrorism". ha ha. Does anyone else find it a little strange that the country with the largest ratio of guns to people on earth is also the country that has has its finger on the trigger of every major international political coup in living memory?
I can't seem to find the -1 "Redneck, lets blow shit up at teh first opportunity!" moderation option.
How does mass importing of American goods improve any countries economy (except the USA - oh, and China)? I know thats probably not what you meant, but its what you seem to be inferring.
No offence but you havent a clue what youre talking about. Putting local farmers on the internet will not make one whit of difference to finding customers, and knowing what the market price is doesnt help either. Why? Farmers cant ship their goods to their customers - its too costly. Only bulk retailers can do that (read slaughterhouses, co-ops, creameries/dairies, etc.) Therefore they are dependent on their local bulk supplier - of which there is usually only one. Knowing what the going price on the internet of your carrots should be is useless if your co-op will only pay you half that. What do you do? You can complain all you like - or not sell your vegetables and bury them.
Thats the funniest thing I've read all year. Thank you for the spilled beer.
I dont know about you, but i never sit down and take the time to watch or study screensavers. they usually appear when i'm away from the computer. in fact usually when im away poer-saving mode kicks in. in fact i fail to see any point in such frivolous eye-candy. sure you can do it, but why would you want to? plus thats just about the worst way i can imagine to view / read news. its like ads on TV.
Ha! I just modded you down. Silly person. That'll how you.
No one uses IIS6. Same reason why Linux and Apple have so few bad sploits.
I take it you haven't taken part in the Slashdot one-day pass to the Mysterious Future then? You get to join subscribers in seeing the news before its made available to all for a full day - the price? Watch some silly ad.
Again? Please remind me about the last time that France submitted to American monopolistic interests. Seems to have slipped my mind ...
but hopefully it's funny
Hopefully? You havent decided yourself yet if its funny or not?
No need to ponder how it could be done, its already been done
Many hollwyood writers, having no real exposure to the reading of actual novels ...
'TF? What idiot would pay them money to write anything then? Oh, thats right! An American idiot.Pity about your lack of grammar skills. Parents grammar parses just fine, although parentheses or dashes would have been made it clearer, rather than commas. For the record, you made me grin - just for the effort - but you've a long way to go to even claim to be emulating Monty Python.
No one - bar perhaps Billy Connolly - is funny all the time. And funnily enough, James Bond was never designed to be a comedy. Give the poor guy a break, he's just trying to make some money without going insane trying to make every last thing imaginable humourous.