That is, assuming this isn't defeated.
Hop along to freenode #gtkpod if you have some serious technical expertise in this kind of thing and are able to obtain a new iPod Classic or Nano.
The best MP3 players in the world can barely manage 30 hours of playback. Anyone thats says they "need" to carry around 100GB of music is talking utter crap.
Are you kidding me? Obviously you're not going to listen to your entire collection in one outing, the point is that you have it all at your disposal so you can listen to anything on a whim. That, and there's a lot more material to shuffle.
If a few albums should be "good enough" for me, I might as well dust off the Walkman and start making tapes again.
I'm willing to bet that most people with more than 30GB haven't listened to every song they own. To be honest I think it's more of an ego thing for people like the parent poster, they need to have as much music as possible with them at all times.
Pure speculative bullshit. Stop defending Apple's queer design decision and admit that 16GB is not enough for some people.
The majority of what the ACLU does is trying to undermine the religious liberty of the people
Head on over to their website and take a look at what they're doing. It's inaccurate to characterize the majority of the causes they take up as pertaining to religion.
They specifically attack the right to religious expression in schools and in public places.
It's not illegal for an individual to pray in school. It is illegal for a publicly funded school to hold a prayer session, and I fail to see the problem with that. Your religion has no right to use my tax dollars to provide a facility for your prayer group.
That's not really the point. I don't have a problem with it being thin, but I find the trade off between a few millimeters thickness and 64GB of storage to be unacceptable.
Anyway, your comment about a "digital brick" is misleading. 80GB iPods are all of 10.5 mm thick. The new 160GB model only adds 3mm to the depth. I have a hard time believing that adding decent storage to the touch iPod would turn into a brick.
this looks like a little more than "just" an ipod. I mean, which ipod comes with a (fully functional) web browser?
This thing does look pretty cool, but only up to 16GB storage? WTF. My old 40GB iPod is already full of music, I'm supposed to that and videos on a 16GB drive? Fucking Apple queers, making it thin and sleek at the expense of functionality.
Unlike a cow, an employee can tell the employer to go and take a running jump, as any sane person would.
That is, assuming they're in a financial position to quit their job, or are so highly in demand in their field, that they can find an equivalent position at a moment's notice.
That's a rather large assumption to make. You may well be in that position, but what about the millions of people who don't have the advantages you do? Don't they deserve better than being tracked like freight in a supply chain?
I still don't know why people obsess so much over Atlas Shrugged...
Because they're intellectually lazy. Atlas Shrugged is very easy to digest (that is, assuming you have no taste in literature) - the story hammers you over the head with her philosophy. There's no subtlety or ambiguity, and not much room for interpretation.
It's more than just visions of the next term, both parties are dedicated to maintaining a strong Federal government led by a powerful executive. They occasionally bicker about the details, but their fundamental belief in executive power is shared.
These devices have been crippled by the cable industry's obsession with controlling their content.
They need to give up and accept that no matter how hard they lock it down, someone's going to post torrents of all their hit shows. They might as well give us a functioning solution to decode their content, instead of the joke that is CableCard.
The raw materials are plentiful and freely available in the form of fecal matter from the open sewers of Lusaka. This is then fermented in plastic bottles and the fumes are inhaled.
Wow. Kinda makes huffing glue seem like sniffing cocaine off a striper's ass.
The idea that your nation deserves its own country is not racist.
If by "nation", you mean ethnic group, then yes, it is entirely racist, especially in this case as it involves displacing a native population. If you're referring to the ancient kingdom of Israel, I find that a very poor rationalization. That's the same sort of logic used by Islamic fundamentalists calling for a caliphate.
Do you think the Palestinians deserve a country?
They deserve to be citizens of a state that treats them as equal human beings. No more, no less.
I tend to find download site favour inferior shareware over better Free Software for both of these systems, perhaps since the authors are more willing to pay for listing.
Good point. I don't disagree, but I would also speculate that the lack of Free software on these sites has something to do with the established shareware culture in Windows/Mac land.
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OK, I'll concede that there are people out there who fit your description.
Will you concede that it doesn't apply to everyone, and for some of us, 16GB really isn't enough?
The best MP3 players in the world can barely manage 30 hours of playback. Anyone thats says they "need" to carry around 100GB of music is talking utter crap.
Are you kidding me? Obviously you're not going to listen to your entire collection in one outing, the point is that you have it all at your disposal so you can listen to anything on a whim. That, and there's a lot more material to shuffle.
If a few albums should be "good enough" for me, I might as well dust off the Walkman and start making tapes again.
I'm willing to bet that most people with more than 30GB haven't listened to every song they own. To be honest I think it's more of an ego thing for people like the parent poster, they need to have as much music as possible with them at all times.
Pure speculative bullshit. Stop defending Apple's queer design decision and admit that 16GB is not enough for some people.
it's just about inegalities and environmental catastrophes
Careful, we all know that's terrist talk.
The time is approaching when someone is going to have to put this guy in the nut house.
I agree, but we need to do something about that Thompson guy too.
The majority of what the ACLU does is trying to undermine the religious liberty of the people
Head on over to their website and take a look at what they're doing. It's inaccurate to characterize the majority of the causes they take up as pertaining to religion.
They specifically attack the right to religious expression in schools and in public places.
It's not illegal for an individual to pray in school. It is illegal for a publicly funded school to hold a prayer session, and I fail to see the problem with that. Your religion has no right to use my tax dollars to provide a facility for your prayer group.
But it seems at every turn the ACLU is cherry-picking the little ones, and not taking on the meaningful ones.
So you're saying that issues like extraordinary rendition, torture and domestic spying are unimportant?
What else do the police do, other than protecting my person and property?
Well, someone's got to conduct elaborate and costly sting operations to catch people trying to have gay sex at an airport.
The ACLU spends far more time attacking the general citizenry than defending it.
Nice troll, but I have this nagging feeling that you are sincere. Care to explain your absurd statement?
That's not really the point. I don't have a problem with it being thin, but I find the trade off between a few millimeters thickness and 64GB of storage to be unacceptable.
Anyway, your comment about a "digital brick" is misleading. 80GB iPods are all of 10.5 mm thick. The new 160GB model only adds 3mm to the depth. I have a hard time believing that adding decent storage to the touch iPod would turn into a brick.
this looks like a little more than "just" an ipod. I mean, which ipod comes with a (fully functional) web browser?
This thing does look pretty cool, but only up to 16GB storage? WTF. My old 40GB iPod is already full of music, I'm supposed to that and videos on a 16GB drive? Fucking Apple queers, making it thin and sleek at the expense of functionality.
I'll hold off until there's an 80GB model.
Unlike a cow, an employee can tell the employer to go and take a running jump, as any sane person would.
That is, assuming they're in a financial position to quit their job, or are so highly in demand in their field, that they can find an equivalent position at a moment's notice.
That's a rather large assumption to make. You may well be in that position, but what about the millions of people who don't have the advantages you do? Don't they deserve better than being tracked like freight in a supply chain?
In a free-market capitalist society, no one has a 'right' to a job that they want.
In any decent society, no employer has the right to treat their employees as cattle.
(being an economic Libertarian) is usually the result of ignorance, stupidity, and greed.
You're missing one important ingredient - lack of empathy.
I still don't know why people obsess so much over Atlas Shrugged...
Because they're intellectually lazy. Atlas Shrugged is very easy to digest (that is, assuming you have no taste in literature) - the story hammers you over the head with her philosophy. There's no subtlety or ambiguity, and not much room for interpretation.
Familiar with the plot of V for Vendetta?
However the path we took really screwed us, but we can't bail out now or our leaving will kill more people than Saddam did in the first place.
People are already dying faster than they did under Saddam.
Us staying there is like leaving a knife in the wound; you have to accept that it's gonna bleed a little when you take it out.
It's more than just visions of the next term, both parties are dedicated to maintaining a strong Federal government led by a powerful executive. They occasionally bicker about the details, but their fundamental belief in executive power is shared.
Troll? I hardly see how looking at your bash history qualifies as "forensics".
Don't get me wrong, the article is somewhat interesting. It's just not an accurate headline.
See those trailers? I assure you, they're mobile DVD manufacturing plants.
These devices have been crippled by the cable industry's obsession with controlling their content.
They need to give up and accept that no matter how hard they lock it down, someone's going to post torrents of all their hit shows. They might as well give us a functioning solution to decode their content, instead of the joke that is CableCard.
The raw materials are plentiful and freely available in the form of fecal matter from the open sewers of Lusaka. This is then fermented in plastic bottles and the fumes are inhaled.
Wow. Kinda makes huffing glue seem like sniffing cocaine off a striper's ass.
The idea that your nation deserves its own country is not racist.
If by "nation", you mean ethnic group, then yes, it is entirely racist, especially in this case as it involves displacing a native population. If you're referring to the ancient kingdom of Israel, I find that a very poor rationalization. That's the same sort of logic used by Islamic fundamentalists calling for a caliphate.
Do you think the Palestinians deserve a country?
They deserve to be citizens of a state that treats them as equal human beings. No more, no less.
Zionism, like Manifest Destiny before it, is a racist ideology. I would consider your assertion that most Jews are Zionists to be slanderous.
I tend to find download site favour inferior shareware over better Free Software for both of these systems, perhaps since the authors are more willing to pay for listing.
Good point. I don't disagree, but I would also speculate that the lack of Free software on these sites has something to do with the established shareware culture in Windows/Mac land.