I may be the only person on the planet crazy enough to view delays in games to be a good thing...as long as we aren't talking Duke Nukem : Forever or Daikatana delays I see it as another bug has been caught, or someone has thought of more content to add to it, or the gameplay/story is being refined. It looks even better to me when this happens during a beta, as this means they have a finished product that works, but feedback from the beta is affecting changes in the game itself. Hopefully in January (even though I don't play WoW) this expansion will hit the market and blow people away. Just because a game is great doesn't mean an expansion can't totally redefine it (CS anyone?).
Luckily as a Geek Squad employee I have access to some neat toys...GS's unholy union with that U3 bullshit they install means we often have to uninstall it on thumbdrives that cause trouble on customers PC's. Shoot me an e-mail and I'll try and track down the program for you.
Side note : U3 uses CDFS on a tiny additional drive and cannot be formatted by regular means.
Indeed it will...I put 20 in during the 20% more promotion and I've been running for months off that...if iTunes was a better program, they sold MP3's, and the prices weren't highway sodomy, then I might consider using it. As it is I'm sure you can go grab a preloaded credit card at the store and spend all you like on AllOfMP3 and it would be easy even on a 13 year old budget (1 lawn and you've got it!).
I'm guessing the limit on the child pornography charge was 6 months so the judge, out of disgust, gave him the maximum on the inciting charge...we see things like that all the time in the states.
Yes, I bow down to Newegg's RMA process...however, I challenge you to check into best buy's procedure regarding iPods and you'll see what I mean. As far as the mp3 player itself, it's still horrible in terms of being user friendly in loading and unloading songs, as well as needing proprietary software. Having said all that, and assuming you're correct (5 days total to try and fix, then ship it back? Seems waaay far fetched), that's still no excuse for making a product that breaks constantly.
Am I the only one here who thinks being on the moon is a good excuse for fumbling over things to say? I mean here he was on this massive technological precipice for mankind looking into the vastness of space from what must have felt like another planet...I'd totally bomb my lines too.
I care because 4 members of my family have now bought these pieces of trash now and they've all regretted it once they realized it's a highly restrictive low quality marketing ploy. If I had warned them they would not have bought them. Hence, warn others...
Aren't better drives usually chosen for that type of application? I would think a 15k RPM SCSI U320 drive would be the standard since they are rated for constant usage. I've had home use drives die before in heavy usage situations but never a server class drive.
It's one thing to be a fanboi, the it's far lamer to be a trendwhore, and you, my friend, have bought into the current anti-apple trend hook, line and sinker.
So by applying my real-world experience to this situation I'm a trend whore? If you say so...
iTunes is the best music management software given away with any >1% market share digital audio software. Whine all you want, but that's a fact, even despite Apple's tendancy to release new versions with a few too many bugs.
Assuming I want my music "managed" I'd use windows media player, winamp, or xmms...iTunes is EASILY the worst piece of music software I've ever used. That said, I put my music in mp3 format directly onto my mp3 player using whatever OS I want...and if you're curious, I have a $40 256mb MPIO with a non-color screen and a rechargeable battery that gets badass playtime on a single charge and can be dropped without fear of a hard drive dying.
If she's got no friends and no car and lives in the sticks, then that woman is fucked. How did she get an iPod in this situation anyway? I've had friends using iPods with Windows 98 computers without a problem. A Google search will provide you with countless Linux solutions. And street vendor - are you having a fucking brain aneurism?
I was including windows 95 in there as well and it's damn near impossible for the average user to get it working in windows 98. As far as the street vendors go, my mother was offered an iPod on nearly every street corner on her recent trip to columbia so this situation isn't as far fetched as it might appear...and also, who's to say she has an internet connection? I used my mp3 player without one for quite some time when I was in a tougher financial situation than I currently am, I simply used wmp (preinstalled on all windows xp PC's) to rip the songs then I transferred them over.
This is pretty much one of the lowest, lamest, trendwhoriest posts I've ever seen on Slashdot, and that's saying a lot. I hope your dick grew because you followed the trend to diss Apple's products and suckle up to Microsoft's Zune because it isn't an iPod even though it's a rebadge of a shitty Toshiba MP3 player. However what more could you expect from a lowly repair tech, then again it isn't as if you understand real world economics. Get a real fucking job, learn that it makes sense to have an iPod repair division when >75% of the market is iPods, and if a company is making 8 MILLION iPods a quarter, they can have leading-edge failure rates and you'd still get thousands of devices with issues. Also portable devices tend to have user-failure issues such as being dropped, etc, hence they'll be brought in for repair more often than other devices.
We had plenty of other mp3 player types which sold probably %50 of what iPods did and we got nowhere near the same return rate. We also had probably %25 of the iPods come back from Apple unrepaired or broken more than they were, it was the worst of our DTV (Direct To Vendor) repair centers. As for you insulting me about my job, well, that doesn't speak well for your confidence level, not to mention your upbringing.
I had a 60gb ATA100 5400RPM Maxtor desktop drive a while back that died after 2 years so I went through the RMA procedure. I got a package from them a few weeks later and to my surprise I discovered an 80gb ATA133 7200RPM drive which I still have to this day (2 years or so now). It still works great and it's the only drive I've gotten through RMA so my experiences have been good.
Assumptions are evil! What if this person has a linux machine or an older windows machine and can't get Apple's piece of shit iTunes software to work? What if she's miles from the nearest library with no car and no friends to borrow a CD from? What if she lives in a 3rd world country and bought an iPod off a street vendor? What if being trendy doesn't matter when your battery dies permanently after only 2 days usage and your hold button stops functioning in the on position? What if you get that stupid fucking frowny face on your LCD and Apple holds your iPod for 3 months because they're the only people who can repair it? What if the fucking iPod was the lowest quality mp3 player on the market today? What if I'm a Geek Squad repair tech and we split into 2 sections because we needed an entire section alone for just taking in iPods? What if the iPod was the most checked in item for repairs by ten fold even though it isn't our highest selling item? What if Apple fanboys posted on Slashdot? Think about it...
But what if someone sold you that same 200mhz PC rebranded as a 2x2.33 GHz Merom? That's what Apple is doing, so before you go into asshat mode try RTFA.
My kingdom for mod points! This post reflects the exact way I feel about Apple. It hurts my brain when I see Apple's commercials about how "PC's are only good for work" and how "PC's tried that "Fun" thing once and didn't like it"...what the fuck? When was the last time they tried to load up a decent game on a mac...oh that's right...fucking Starcraft! Apple propoganda maddens me to no end. Back on topic...this article/issue has no real effect on my opinion as I get all my music from CD's and rip them without DRM to my mp3 player that acts as a mass storage device so I don't have to use any proprietary bullshit programs like iTunes to get my music onto them.
I'm assuming this content is better than the movie itself. I had to turn the movie off halfway through because the quality level was almost as bad as the second TFATF.
Am I the only one crazy enough to think someone with that kind of money could just buy YouTube, move it to sweden next door to ThePirateBay and throw some more ads on it?
You're sending the waves into MY house...my gear is just responding...I know plenty of people who's computers connect to every insecure network named "Linksys" simply because the owners at one point connected to one of them. Are these clueless people stealing by attempting to connect from somewhere else on a connection they don't even know they made? You wouldn't steal someone's cable directly...but you'd damn sure think about watching it if they displayed it on your living room wall via a projector at the window.
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They're right here! http://moller.com/ But that doesn't mean they're for everyone...nor perfect yet...
I may be the only person on the planet crazy enough to view delays in games to be a good thing...as long as we aren't talking Duke Nukem : Forever or Daikatana delays I see it as another bug has been caught, or someone has thought of more content to add to it, or the gameplay/story is being refined. It looks even better to me when this happens during a beta, as this means they have a finished product that works, but feedback from the beta is affecting changes in the game itself. Hopefully in January (even though I don't play WoW) this expansion will hit the market and blow people away. Just because a game is great doesn't mean an expansion can't totally redefine it (CS anyone?).
Luckily as a Geek Squad employee I have access to some neat toys...GS's unholy union with that U3 bullshit they install means we often have to uninstall it on thumbdrives that cause trouble on customers PC's. Shoot me an e-mail and I'll try and track down the program for you. Side note : U3 uses CDFS on a tiny additional drive and cannot be formatted by regular means.
Solid point...I think we're being a bit over-paranoid here.
Indeed it will...I put 20 in during the 20% more promotion and I've been running for months off that...if iTunes was a better program, they sold MP3's, and the prices weren't highway sodomy, then I might consider using it. As it is I'm sure you can go grab a preloaded credit card at the store and spend all you like on AllOfMP3 and it would be easy even on a 13 year old budget (1 lawn and you've got it!).
I'm guessing the limit on the child pornography charge was 6 months so the judge, out of disgust, gave him the maximum on the inciting charge...we see things like that all the time in the states.
As a gentoo user, I find this beyond hilarious.
All music lost and a questionable refurb in return? Ouch!
Yes, I bow down to Newegg's RMA process...however, I challenge you to check into best buy's procedure regarding iPods and you'll see what I mean. As far as the mp3 player itself, it's still horrible in terms of being user friendly in loading and unloading songs, as well as needing proprietary software. Having said all that, and assuming you're correct (5 days total to try and fix, then ship it back? Seems waaay far fetched), that's still no excuse for making a product that breaks constantly.
Am I the only one here who thinks being on the moon is a good excuse for fumbling over things to say? I mean here he was on this massive technological precipice for mankind looking into the vastness of space from what must have felt like another planet...I'd totally bomb my lines too.
I care because 4 members of my family have now bought these pieces of trash now and they've all regretted it once they realized it's a highly restrictive low quality marketing ploy. If I had warned them they would not have bought them. Hence, warn others...
Aren't better drives usually chosen for that type of application? I would think a 15k RPM SCSI U320 drive would be the standard since they are rated for constant usage. I've had home use drives die before in heavy usage situations but never a server class drive.
I had a 60gb ATA100 5400RPM Maxtor desktop drive a while back that died after 2 years so I went through the RMA procedure. I got a package from them a few weeks later and to my surprise I discovered an 80gb ATA133 7200RPM drive which I still have to this day (2 years or so now). It still works great and it's the only drive I've gotten through RMA so my experiences have been good.
Assumptions are evil! What if this person has a linux machine or an older windows machine and can't get Apple's piece of shit iTunes software to work? What if she's miles from the nearest library with no car and no friends to borrow a CD from? What if she lives in a 3rd world country and bought an iPod off a street vendor? What if being trendy doesn't matter when your battery dies permanently after only 2 days usage and your hold button stops functioning in the on position? What if you get that stupid fucking frowny face on your LCD and Apple holds your iPod for 3 months because they're the only people who can repair it? What if the fucking iPod was the lowest quality mp3 player on the market today? What if I'm a Geek Squad repair tech and we split into 2 sections because we needed an entire section alone for just taking in iPods? What if the iPod was the most checked in item for repairs by ten fold even though it isn't our highest selling item? What if Apple fanboys posted on Slashdot? Think about it...
But what if someone sold you that same 200mhz PC rebranded as a 2x2.33 GHz Merom? That's what Apple is doing, so before you go into asshat mode try RTFA.
My kingdom for mod points! This post reflects the exact way I feel about Apple. It hurts my brain when I see Apple's commercials about how "PC's are only good for work" and how "PC's tried that "Fun" thing once and didn't like it"...what the fuck? When was the last time they tried to load up a decent game on a mac...oh that's right...fucking Starcraft! Apple propoganda maddens me to no end. Back on topic...this article/issue has no real effect on my opinion as I get all my music from CD's and rip them without DRM to my mp3 player that acts as a mass storage device so I don't have to use any proprietary bullshit programs like iTunes to get my music onto them.
I'm assuming this content is better than the movie itself. I had to turn the movie off halfway through because the quality level was almost as bad as the second TFATF.
Am I the only one crazy enough to think someone with that kind of money could just buy YouTube, move it to sweden next door to ThePirateBay and throw some more ads on it?
The original quote probably contained the correct spelling of "existence".
How does a person with a sub 200k uid on slashdot not already know all about tubgirl/goatse/lemonparty?
Descramble? Yeah that sounds like an open invitation you blatant asshat.
You're sending the waves into MY house...my gear is just responding...I know plenty of people who's computers connect to every insecure network named "Linksys" simply because the owners at one point connected to one of them. Are these clueless people stealing by attempting to connect from somewhere else on a connection they don't even know they made? You wouldn't steal someone's cable directly...but you'd damn sure think about watching it if they displayed it on your living room wall via a projector at the window.
And what if they parked it in your living room with a big "PUBLIC CAR" sign on it?
Congratulations! You two have discovered what I like to call "Personal Preference".