nothing ever changes does it? certainly not when it comes to something as stagnant as the tech industry, and certainly not over a period of time so inconceivably small as a couple of years.
the theory of evolution is a (very successful) attempt to explain those facts.
just like gravitation is an observed fact, with a corresponding (very successful) theory to explain it.
the difference is that demonstrating evolution is a fact is not as easy as simply dropping an object, yet it is a fact nontheless which has been observed by many thousands of people and capable of being observed by *anyone* who wants to do a little work. science is very democratic about who get's information, whereas apparently God doesn't believe that information wants to be free: a handful of prophets over thosands of years - that's the worst DRM scheme ever.
>will start releasing phones with the same storage as iPods -- up to 30 gigabytes
that's half the storage of my *current* iPod. and I hope they're going to have support for podcasts, photos, videos etc.... actually, forget that, what about the chance that it'll even sync with my mac in the first place, let alone not requiring me to use it's own ugly little app that messes everything about?
>One device in my pocket or two? It's a no-brainer if you ask me.
twice the battery life in my pocket or not? imo it's a bad idea to converge devices that have different usage patterns. for example phone: always on, with occasional high usage, always with me. ipod: usually off with regular high usage, usually with me but I like being able to NOT take it everywhere. also, phone battery life can be important in emergencies, ipod battery life is just entertainment. my ability to use a converged device would be restricted by needing to ensure enough battery life remaining for emergencies; my ipod can run dry if I so choose.
I'd probably get an iPhone, but not because it's a converged device, but because it'd probably be a very high quality "just works" phone with complete mac compatibility.
sounds to me that the iPod DID work "right out of the box", with things only starting to go wrong when you brought a Windows machine into the mix. hmmmmm......
>victims claim that Moore was in fact mimicking GTA, which attorneys claim Moore played 'obsessively'
even if we're prepared to accept that there's a causal link in this case between observation and mimicking, surely that he played it 'obsessively' is enough to reject the argument. if you eat/drink/smoke/gamble/have sex/do anything 'obsessively' there are bound to be negative consequences.
if, on the other hand, he'd played the game for 30 minutes and, for example, the seqence of lights and sounds put him into a suggestable state of hypnosis and programmed him to be a cop-killer (not possible annyway since hypnosis can't make you do anything you're not really prepared to do), then there might be a case.
a non-monopolistic market share (*only* 3rd biggest home console, biggest handheld) does not make a company "niche", and nintendo's entire strategy is the opposite of niche. if anything it's the super-high-frame-rate-loving-first-person-shooter- player that is niche.
>I have to agree that atheism is pretty much a religion
just like anti-fundamentalism is fundamentalism. I don't like fundamentalism, but if I don't like it I must be a fundamentalist about it. aaarrrggghghhh!!!!
seriously, get a clue. if you don't know the difference between believing something doesn't exist and not believing something does exist then I have a rock that wards off tigers to sell you.
while you're going to the clue-library to check out a clue-book, also look up the difference between religion and theism. the more you know!
I'm an OS X user and find this ME-hatred ridiculous.
as a former ME user I can say that for me it was not noticably any worse/less stable than any other MS OS yet was an improvement in practical terms in several significant (to me, an actual user) ways: 1. faster booting 2. disk scan ran inside windows and was a million times faster 3. native.zip support
all MS's OSs are crimes against humanity. supporting Hitler 2000 and condeming Hitler ME doesn't make you a hero, or a "power user", or cool. nobody using a MS OS has any right to start getting preachy about poor design.
so how about the same thing with TV? no broadcast regulations - any channel can broadcast hardcore porn at any time and if you're not there watching every second of your childrens' viewing then that's just your fault.
I'm sure most people here will have a first reaction of bitching about the injustice, but this seems not only reasonable but good. he's right about it being too hard for client-side blocking (an article on a similar topic recently had about a kabillion "d'uh ubuntu CD!11" threads).
it's like the issue of people bitching about ISPs not allowing all ports open by default. sure it helps againt spam and is a non-issue for 99.999999% of users, but what about the poor linux guy with his own mail server that has to go to all the effort of making a phone call to a real person to get the port opened!
analogy: when you buy a basic TV package you don't automatically have porn channels enabled.
no, Solitaire is Solitaire, Music Quiz is "that bizarre iPod music guessing game" (kinda cool if you have lots of music and forget about about songs you haven't played in a while)
actually there is such a word as flammable, and it is the preferred version for fire warnings.
"inflame" comes from the same lating word as flammable (flamma), but is more often used figuratively or in non-technical contexts e.g. "imflammable issue".
in other news, I already have a computer, but there are computer shops everywhere. there are even computer shops on the internet - how the hell does that work?
>Am I the only one thinking this is the first step to subscription music on the IPod
no, but you seem to be one of the people who are falsely under the impression that "subscription" means rental, which it does not in either the general case or the case of iTunes video passes.
here "subscription" has its tru meaning, as applied for example to magazines, in that you pay for something in advance (at discount) and receive the product periodically when it is actually published.
this is not to be confused with BS "subscription" services which take away what you already have when you stop paying.
"don't open all ports and turn on all services and turn off the firewall and give everyone who asks a local ssh account and post your IP on the internet with a challenge to be hacked"
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>I dunno, who wants to buy a movie you can't rip to your PC without violating the DMCA?
people who live in countries where U.S. law doesn't apply?
nothing ever changes does it? certainly not when it comes to something as stagnant as the tech industry, and certainly not over a period of time so inconceivably small as a couple of years.
I for one am still satisfied by my 640kb.
evolution is an observed fact.
the theory of evolution is a (very successful) attempt to explain those facts.
just like gravitation is an observed fact, with a corresponding (very successful) theory to explain it.
the difference is that demonstrating evolution is a fact is not as easy as simply dropping an object, yet it is a fact nontheless which has been observed by many thousands of people and capable of being observed by *anyone* who wants to do a little work. science is very democratic about who get's information, whereas apparently God doesn't believe that information wants to be free: a handful of prophets over thosands of years - that's the worst DRM scheme ever.
> meaning that your "library" could be as big as you wanted
compare the size of the 5G iPod (60GB) to the size of 60 x 1GB minidiscs.
if you want an even bigger library, next consider the size of 80 or so minidisks to the size of a 12 inch iBook.
further still, consider the size of 200 minidisks to the size of an external hard drive.
at no point in the comparison does minidisk come close to even, let alone get ahead.
and all this ignores the fact that 1x60GB is far more accessable than 60x1GB, and with the iPod solution you also have laptop functionality.
>will start releasing phones with the same storage as iPods -- up to 30 gigabytes
that's half the storage of my *current* iPod. and I hope they're going to have support for podcasts, photos, videos etc.... actually, forget that, what about the chance that it'll even sync with my mac in the first place, let alone not requiring me to use it's own ugly little app that messes everything about?
>One device in my pocket or two? It's a no-brainer if you ask me.
twice the battery life in my pocket or not? imo it's a bad idea to converge devices that have different usage patterns. for example phone: always on, with occasional high usage, always with me. ipod: usually off with regular high usage, usually with me but I like being able to NOT take it everywhere. also, phone battery life can be important in emergencies, ipod battery life is just entertainment. my ability to use a converged device would be restricted by needing to ensure enough battery life remaining for emergencies; my ipod can run dry if I so choose.
I'd probably get an iPhone, but not because it's a converged device, but because it'd probably be a very high quality "just works" phone with complete mac compatibility.
>its gone 12 noon and as such april fools day jokes are *redundant* (owing to the custom of stopping at noon)
I do not think this word means what you think it means.
sounds to me that the iPod DID work "right out of the box", with things only starting to go wrong when you brought a Windows machine into the mix. hmmmmm......
>victims claim that Moore was in fact mimicking GTA, which attorneys claim Moore played 'obsessively'
even if we're prepared to accept that there's a causal link in this case between observation and mimicking, surely that he played it 'obsessively' is enough to reject the argument. if you eat/drink/smoke/gamble/have sex/do anything 'obsessively' there are bound to be negative consequences.
if, on the other hand, he'd played the game for 30 minutes and, for example, the seqence of lights and sounds put him into a suggestable state of hypnosis and programmed him to be a cop-killer (not possible annyway since hypnosis can't make you do anything you're not really prepared to do), then there might be a case.
or more simply: never pick a Sony backed format
or simpler still: never pick a Sony
a non-monopolistic market share (*only* 3rd biggest home console, biggest handheld) does not make a company "niche", and nintendo's entire strategy is the opposite of niche. if anything it's the super-high-frame-rate-loving-first-person-shooter- player that is niche.
>I have to agree that atheism is pretty much a religion
just like anti-fundamentalism is fundamentalism. I don't like fundamentalism, but if I don't like it I must be a fundamentalist about it. aaarrrggghghhh!!!!
seriously, get a clue. if you don't know the difference between believing something doesn't exist and not believing something does exist then I have a rock that wards off tigers to sell you.
while you're going to the clue-library to check out a clue-book, also look up the difference between religion and theism. the more you know!
blah blah blah ME sucks blah blah blah
.zip support
I'm an OS X user and find this ME-hatred ridiculous.
as a former ME user I can say that for me it was not noticably any worse/less stable than any other MS OS yet was an improvement in practical terms in several significant (to me, an actual user) ways:
1. faster booting
2. disk scan ran inside windows and was a million times faster
3. native
all MS's OSs are crimes against humanity. supporting Hitler 2000 and condeming Hitler ME doesn't make you a hero, or a "power user", or cool. nobody using a MS OS has any right to start getting preachy about poor design.
who cares about region-coding when PS3 will have games locked to the first owner?
parents should be watching their children 24/7?
so how about the same thing with TV? no broadcast regulations - any channel can broadcast hardcore porn at any time and if you're not there watching every second of your childrens' viewing then that's just your fault.
I'm sure most people here will have a first reaction of bitching about the injustice, but this seems not only reasonable but good. he's right about it being too hard for client-side blocking (an article on a similar topic recently had about a kabillion "d'uh ubuntu CD!11" threads).
it's like the issue of people bitching about ISPs not allowing all ports open by default. sure it helps againt spam and is a non-issue for 99.999999% of users, but what about the poor linux guy with his own mail server that has to go to all the effort of making a phone call to a real person to get the port opened!
analogy: when you buy a basic TV package you don't automatically have porn channels enabled.
just use sidetrack. you can make all corners clickable and all edges scrollable, with user-set sizes of zones.
>His first release is Mac & Linux only.
you misspelled Windows.
oh... that makes a refreshing change.
no, Solitaire is Solitaire, Music Quiz is "that bizarre iPod music guessing game" (kinda cool if you have lots of music and forget about about songs you haven't played in a while)
>Is it really worth delaying the release for more then a month just to polish it out a little bit?
there are hundreds of distros already, and the only thing they all lack is polish, so yes.
what's the hurry?
actually there is such a word as flammable, and it is the preferred version for fire warnings.
"inflame" comes from the same lating word as flammable (flamma), but is more often used figuratively or in non-technical contexts e.g. "imflammable issue".
good for you.
in other news, I already have a computer, but there are computer shops everywhere. there are even computer shops on the internet - how the hell does that work?
>Am I the only one thinking this is the first step to subscription music on the IPod
no, but you seem to be one of the people who are falsely under the impression that "subscription" means rental, which it does not in either the general case or the case of iTunes video passes.
here "subscription" has its tru meaning, as applied for example to magazines, in that you pay for something in advance (at discount) and receive the product periodically when it is actually published.
this is not to be confused with BS "subscription" services which take away what you already have when you stop paying.
no, they copied if from Apple's iSync.
it's also similar to Apple's OS X loading icon.
has anyone got it to work in Safari? just says loading for me.
you'd only need one manual, and it would say:
"don't open all ports and turn on all services and turn off the firewall and give everyone who asks a local ssh account and post your IP on the internet with a challenge to be hacked"