Apple is junk for the money, you can get the same specs for less than half the price. What the extra 100 or 200 bucks buy you is better power circuitry, cathode ray tubes/LEDs and electronics.
I beg to differ. Apple uses S-IPS panels in its Cinema displays and there is a world of difference between an IPS panel and a TN panel (the one used by your entry-level Samsung T220).
If you shop around for IPS panels you'll find that Apple's displays are pretty good value, especially considering there are USB and FireWire hubs built into them.
Well maybe if you had a fucking place for the kids to hang out and play "football" you wouldn't have this problem. Why is your boredom my problem?
Maybe your lack of money is my problem too?
And I bet your lack of girlfriend is also my problem?
It makes perfect sense! Everything wrong in your life is really all my fault!
No. Since you arrogant cunts, hiding behind your mob mentality, believe in the law of the jungle you should also be subjected to the law of the jungle. You should all be publicly slaughtered. Half the adult population would queue up and pay good money to do it.
Life's cheap, you shitty, parasitic bastard. No-one would miss you, especially not your worthless parents.
However, if a fan gets the music some other way, say by downloading it, and then performs some informal service to the band to show his/her appreciation and support, the band has not stolen anything from the suits, because there's rarely a clause in record contracts which say "we get 75% of every nice thing a fan ever does for your group".
Well, that's not strictly true for the traditional recording contract.
Usually the record company owns mechanical copyright on all of a band's recordings. That is, every copy of the recording (and a download qualifies here) carries a royalty fee that is due to the label. Thereafter the label pays some percentage of that royalty to the band as part of their contract.
In addition, the actual written music, separate to the recording itself, is owned by the publisher (which is not necessarily the label or the band). Musical covers of a band's song carry a royalty payment to the publisher.
So downloading a band's track means the suits are, legally, owed a royalty. If you pay that royalty directly to the band you are, in effect, robbing the suits. Bigger bands, Radiohead etc. own their recordings because they can finance their own studios, mastering etc. But Joe Average won't.
Obviously I'm over-simplifying: recording contracts come to an end; artists own their own publishing; not every label is a money-grabbing enterprise.
There is NO drm on the music on the Audio CD that can legally be called a Audio CD. There are half-assed attempts to make a PC not read them, which are in fact NOT DRM. So the OP is actually right, you are the one that is mistaken. Au contraire. The half-assed attempts to make a PC not read a CD are the copyright owners' attempts at Digital Rights Management. Nobody said digital music files themselves have to be polluted with copy protection in order to implement DRM.
You've also spelled "popular" wrong wrong should really be written wrongly as it is the adverb applied to the verb spell. That said, You've also spelled "popular" wrongly reads clumsily. A better construction might be You've also spelled "popular" incorrectly. And a real Olde English pedant might prefer spelt to spelled.
Re:Explain the fricken 12,000 bucks for this...
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WinXP on a Mac, Hoax?
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Name one reason why Apple would not want WinXP booting on a Mac?
Because WinXP boots just as nicely on a Walmart laptop. If people who own Mac hardware find themselves booting to Windows as often or more often than OSX, their next purchase may rationalize that the premium is just not worth it to run OSX.
Damn...you're right. When the time comes I'll be trading up my Lexus for a Yugo.
The thumb naturally makes a ciruclar motion, lending itself best to the click wheel design. When I am forced to use a directional navigation system, its as if my fingers are forced to hold positions that don't feel natural. Anyone else get this feeling?
Actually, no. I very much get the opposite feeling.
I bought a video iPod in December and I don't think the wheel is all it's cracked up to be. I have 25GB of music, audiobooks, podcasts and photos, etc. and it's a pain in the ass using that wheel to whizz up and down long lists.
Moreover, the most irritating thing about the wheel is whenever I scroll to my chosen track, then lift off my thumb to click the center button, the chosen track invariably changes because my thumb makes a tiny scrolling movement on the wheel just as it gets airborne. That really pisses me off. It really slows down the whole find-then-play maneuver because I have to make such precise thumb movements.
In fact, when I first got the iPod, my initial instinct (and that of the four other people I know who bought theirs at the same time) was to click-and-hold the top and bottom of the wheel (like UP and DOWN) buttons to scroll up and down the playlists. Then to click the right of the wheel to 'move right' into the highlighted playlist. So the UP/DOWN/LEFT/RIGHT paradigm is more natural for some people.
Oh, and you can't even use the wheel if you're wearing gloves.
Having said all that, you'd have to pry that 'Pod from my cold, dead, gloveless hands. The value of the whole iTunes/iPod link-up is so much greater than the sum of its parts.
We have rhythmbox and madman. IHMO both beat itunes hands-down.
Kent, rhythmbox is a great start, but it doesn't come close to iTunes for ease of use. You can't even drag-and-drop a bunch of MP3s to create a playlist. And it has almost no out-of-the-box radio stations. And it crashes too easily (e.g. importing an ASF file whilst creating its library...that's probably a GStreamer bug actually). And it has no mini-player option. Having said all that, it's the player I use the most on Linux;-P
I installed Ubu 5.04 on my Dell Inspiron 8000 about a month ago from a bootable DVD that came with a magazine. Aside from the X setup (WTF does every distro other than Mandrake f*ck this up so badly?? Luckily I had kept my previous xorg.conf file) it went completely smoothly. It even detected the touchpad and a WiFi card that I usually have to hack in from an unofficial source rebuild.
My partitions:
4GB '/'
5GB '/home'
swap is 256MB
The installation left plenty of room to spare.
I've had Mandrake 8.0 thru 10.1 on that laptop, and RH 8, but Ubuntu utterly rocks. It's a little slower (read: sluggish) than Mandrake 10.1 for some reason, but I don't really care.
OT: why was Mandrake 9.2 waaaay faster on my machine than the then-current Gentoo built-from-source distro??
The Ubu non-graphical installer is pretty sad though, in this day and age, but it worked okay.
And I managed to install Java, Eclipse, an MP3 encoder, blah blah all without ever having SEEN a Debian distro or used apt before. It's a piece of cake. Kubuntu is just as polished.
Ubuntu is as close as I've ever seen to a ready-to-go desktop Linux distro (Lycoris-alikes notwithstanding). All the usuable apps on the menus; anti-aliased fonts lookin' good out of the box; Ubuntu (and Kubuntu) desktop theme lookin' polished... Some accomplishment.
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I will not believe a word of it until I see a proper peer-reviewed research paper in a medical journal that debunks stretching.
Can you show me the proper peer-reviewed research paper in a medical journal that you read before you started stretching?
There are plenty of habits that perceived wisdom once deemed healthy, which we now know to be the opposite. Or do we?
Apple is junk for the money, you can get the same specs for less than half the price. What the extra 100 or 200 bucks buy you is better power circuitry, cathode ray tubes/LEDs and electronics.
I beg to differ. Apple uses S-IPS panels in its Cinema displays and there is a world of difference between an IPS panel and a TN panel (the one used by your entry-level Samsung T220). If you shop around for IPS panels you'll find that Apple's displays are pretty good value, especially considering there are USB and FireWire hubs built into them.
Maybe your lack of money is my problem too?
And I bet your lack of girlfriend is also my problem?
It makes perfect sense! Everything wrong in your life is really all my fault!
No. Since you arrogant cunts, hiding behind your mob mentality, believe in the law of the jungle you should also be subjected to the law of the jungle. You should all be publicly slaughtered. Half the adult population would queue up and pay good money to do it.
Life's cheap, you shitty, parasitic bastard. No-one would miss you, especially not your worthless parents.
Well, that's not strictly true for the traditional recording contract.
Usually the record company owns mechanical copyright on all of a band's recordings. That is, every copy of the recording (and a download qualifies here) carries a royalty fee that is due to the label. Thereafter the label pays some percentage of that royalty to the band as part of their contract.
In addition, the actual written music, separate to the recording itself, is owned by the publisher (which is not necessarily the label or the band). Musical covers of a band's song carry a royalty payment to the publisher.
So downloading a band's track means the suits are, legally, owed a royalty. If you pay that royalty directly to the band you are, in effect, robbing the suits. Bigger bands, Radiohead etc. own their recordings because they can finance their own studios, mastering etc. But Joe Average won't.
Obviously I'm over-simplifying: recording contracts come to an end; artists own their own publishing; not every label is a money-grabbing enterprise.
Now all my changed files light up as blue in the explorer tree as well as having those little decorator icons. How about that for easy to spot?
I also change "Ignored Resources" to light grey so they 'fade out' in the explorer tree.
Eclipse is cool. But Netbeans 6.0 is fantastic.
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Stephen Fry be thy name.
Chuckle.
Damn...you're right. When the time comes I'll be trading up my Lexus for a Yugo.
That's the best retort I've read here in a long time. Respect.
Actually, no. I very much get the opposite feeling.
I bought a video iPod in December and I don't think the wheel is all it's cracked up to be. I have 25GB of music, audiobooks, podcasts and photos, etc. and it's a pain in the ass using that wheel to whizz up and down long lists.
Moreover, the most irritating thing about the wheel is whenever I scroll to my chosen track, then lift off my thumb to click the center button, the chosen track invariably changes because my thumb makes a tiny scrolling movement on the wheel just as it gets airborne. That really pisses me off. It really slows down the whole find-then-play maneuver because I have to make such precise thumb movements.
In fact, when I first got the iPod, my initial instinct (and that of the four other people I know who bought theirs at the same time) was to click-and-hold the top and bottom of the wheel (like UP and DOWN) buttons to scroll up and down the playlists. Then to click the right of the wheel to 'move right' into the highlighted playlist. So the UP/DOWN/LEFT/RIGHT paradigm is more natural for some people.
Oh, and you can't even use the wheel if you're wearing gloves.
Having said all that, you'd have to pry that 'Pod from my cold, dead, gloveless hands. The value of the whole iTunes/iPod link-up is so much greater than the sum of its parts.
I installed Ubu 5.04 on my Dell Inspiron 8000 about a month ago from a bootable DVD that came with a magazine. Aside from the X setup (WTF does every distro other than Mandrake f*ck this up so badly?? Luckily I had kept my previous xorg.conf file) it went completely smoothly. It even detected the touchpad and a WiFi card that I usually have to hack in from an unofficial source rebuild.
My partitions:
4GB '/'
5GB '/home'
swap is 256MB
The installation left plenty of room to spare.
I've had Mandrake 8.0 thru 10.1 on that laptop, and RH 8, but Ubuntu utterly rocks. It's a little slower (read: sluggish) than Mandrake 10.1 for some reason, but I don't really care.
OT: why was Mandrake 9.2 waaaay faster on my machine than the then-current Gentoo built-from-source distro??
The Ubu non-graphical installer is pretty sad though, in this day and age, but it worked okay.
And I managed to install Java, Eclipse, an MP3 encoder, blah blah all without ever having SEEN a Debian distro or used apt before. It's a piece of cake. Kubuntu is just as polished.
Ubuntu is as close as I've ever seen to a ready-to-go desktop Linux distro (Lycoris-alikes notwithstanding). All the usuable apps on the menus; anti-aliased fonts lookin' good out of the box; Ubuntu (and Kubuntu) desktop theme lookin' polished... Some accomplishment.
It's a breath of fresh air. Enjoy
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FYI, my 5-year-old Dell:
Inspiron 8000, dual booting WindowsXP
384MB RAM
ATI Rage 128
15" - 1400x1050
DVD-R + CD/RW
Synaptics Trackpad
How much applications in Gnome are actually coded using Mono? None, AFAICS
MUINE http://muine.gooeylinux.org/ is a Gnome app coded in Mono.
Here are a few more:
http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=9780