Any relation to this plan?(read through, you may not get it all without reading GPF from the beginning, but it's about a plot to get rid of geeks from supermodels, and the comic itself is awesome)
That instead of having the switch turn off my iPod, I have to hold down Play to turn it off. And since I usually pause before turning off my iPod(in most circumstances I don't like to turn on my iPod to the middle of a song), letting up too soon can cause it to start playing, which annoys me because I then have to set it to the beginning of the track again. The way they force us to turn them off is my only real beef with the iPod. That and DRM on iTMS-downloaded files preventing me from listening to them on Linux and causing stupid bugs when corruption occurs on the DRM key, requiring me to sync my iPod again(which requires me to boot to Windows). But the DRM is another story, and more the fault of the RIAA than Apple.
Thank god my iPod headphones broke and I'm using other headphones. The current ones are made by So......ny..........HOLY CRAP! THE ROOTKIT'S TAKING OVER MY BRAIN!... ... ...
Hail Sony. Rootkits are good. PS3 ueber alles.
I think a line or two of Nirvana is appropriate here:
Just because you're paranoid...
Don't mean they're not after you
(Don't complain to me about the grammar, that's a direct quote from the song and ergo all complaints should be directed to Kurt Cobain provided you can find a medium.)
I use the hold feature for one thing--preventing the iPod from going on when I don't want it to. But I agree--lock while the iPod is on is a useless feature and should be replaced with an "on/off" switch.
Your type amuses me *all* the time. Most of the posts are simply happy that ActiveX will become a little more annoying and people will have a little more reason to use Firefox or some other browser. I haven't seen a single post saying "Yay for patents" or anything to that effect, except in jest. Then again, your type doesn't know the difference between use of copyright to ensure freedom(GPL) and use of copyright to decrease freedom(RIAA), so I think your comprehension skills are quite low.
I'd say that 98% of humanity is infected with either that syndrome, its opposite "I can't do it, so it must be really fscking hard", or both(for different things, of course).
The artists aren't affected by piracy. The artists rarely see more than a few cents of any album sold(only a few indie companies give more--usually then the artists want people to hear them so they'll buy their next album more than trying to squeeze every cent of profit out of that one). The artists make money from going on concert and selling stuff there--they get much larger cuts of the profit there.
Basically, unless you're say, Green Day, the money you get from album sales is negligable. And if you're Green Day, it's still negligable compared to your concert profits. Why don't Green Day and such only do concerts then? My guess would be contracts.
"This job would be easier if it was a dictatorship--and I was the dictator."
Okay, I agreed with you up to quoting this(ironically, the song that just started playing on my iPod is "Holiday" by Green Day). I'm pretty sure that quote was just a joke. Even so, it's true that a dictator's job is easier, but that's not a good thing for the people. The rest of your post, I agree. Let's just hope that Bush's slide towards dictatorship is at least partially slowed down this year(the Roman Empire kept the Senate, and it did hold some residual power), and that it halts in 2008 rather than Karl Rove's next servant getting in. (Karl Rove also currently controlls Congress.)
Mostly unrelated fact: The last time Congress actually declared war: World War II.(Other unrelated note: "Holiday" just ended.) Incidentally, that's the last time a stable democracy has occured as a direct result of a US invasion.
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iTunes doesn't directly distribute music. Apple Corp does.
No. He has a Mac.
View -> Page Style -> No Style helps, though. ^^
Any relation to this plan?(read through, you may not get it all without reading GPF from the beginning, but it's about a plot to get rid of geeks from supermodels, and the comic itself is awesome)
Thank god my iPod headphones broke and I'm using other headphones. The current ones are made by So......ny..........HOLY CRAP! THE ROOTKIT'S TAKING OVER MY BRAIN!...
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Hail Sony. Rootkits are good. PS3 ueber alles.
Think of the longetivity of the iPod headphones--very short. So they had to have several nanomachines in case one or two of them fail.
ed.
Seriously, any amount of time attempting to use ed would drive one to suicide.
And before a lunar base is built.
I think a line or two of Nirvana is appropriate here:
Just because you're paranoid...
Don't mean they're not after you
(Don't complain to me about the grammar, that's a direct quote from the song and ergo all complaints should be directed to Kurt Cobain provided you can find a medium.)
I use the hold feature for one thing--preventing the iPod from going on when I don't want it to. But I agree--lock while the iPod is on is a useless feature and should be replaced with an "on/off" switch.
Your type amuses me *all* the time. Most of the posts are simply happy that ActiveX will become a little more annoying and people will have a little more reason to use Firefox or some other browser. I haven't seen a single post saying "Yay for patents" or anything to that effect, except in jest. Then again, your type doesn't know the difference between use of copyright to ensure freedom(GPL) and use of copyright to decrease freedom(RIAA), so I think your comprehension skills are quite low.
I'd say that 98% of humanity is infected with either that syndrome, its opposite "I can't do it, so it must be really fscking hard", or both(for different things, of course).
Yes, I saw the perfect opportunity for a failed car analogy. So I jumped at it. Thank you, Alienware, for making it so easy.
Honda was the first plastic car maker that I could think of.(Hint: Plastic cars == cheap and not durable) But Hyundai would probably be better.
"Nobody builds their own Ferrari." I wouldn't really trust Honda to build my Ferrari...
No, the Cylons have better spelling.
The artists aren't affected by piracy. The artists rarely see more than a few cents of any album sold(only a few indie companies give more--usually then the artists want people to hear them so they'll buy their next album more than trying to squeeze every cent of profit out of that one). The artists make money from going on concert and selling stuff there--they get much larger cuts of the profit there.
Basically, unless you're say, Green Day, the money you get from album sales is negligable. And if you're Green Day, it's still negligable compared to your concert profits. Why don't Green Day and such only do concerts then? My guess would be contracts.
It can't really be called feature complete when all but a few features not already in XP have been cut out. :P
Mostly unrelated fact: The last time Congress actually declared war: World War II.(Other unrelated note: "Holiday" just ended.) Incidentally, that's the last time a stable democracy has occured as a direct result of a US invasion.
Trump, Murdoch, and Steinbrenner never needed donations.