you could have shortened your response by just refering him to your sig:-)
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of course you can play them in iTunes. just in case: you can also play songs and podcasts and movie trailers and audiobooks downloaded through iTMS in iTunes.
okay then, if only 10% is user needs and there's at least 2 user needs (ripping from CDs and playing music), then you should easily be able to give me at least 18 examples of something iTunes does that doesn't satisfy a user need.
or are you just one of the 90% of people that make up BS statistics on the spot?
but it supports Apple Lossless so if you care about quality rather than ideology you're fine. if you care about ideology then you'd find some other reason not to buy one anyway.
>point taken to the extreme but where do you draw the line
I don't know but after thinking about it for half a second a good place to start might be that this printer system causes no inconvenience to the user (AFAIK) whereas a house search would.
I think you'll find the point is that most of us CAN. "Most people" use Word to write lists, and if the list needs 2 columns they use Excel. It doesn't have to be that way.
And it's not just about linux, his favourite OS is Mac OS X.
If you *need* MS, you probably made a poor decision somewhere along the line. If you have a free choice but choose to stick with MS that's fair enough. There's nothing about being a doctor or lawyer that intrinsically requires a MS operating system or software.
if it's in the normal DVD packaging then you could leave it unopened and resell if you didn't like the movie. but if it's a cheap copy with their own branding then I think it costs too much. if you're the type of collector who is proud of their collection you wouldn't want this, and if you don't care about your collection the hard copy wouldn't matter too much either.
>The proof offered for the existence of blackholes doesn't convince me. Just because there is a solution to the GR equations doesn't make it physically real.
people don't believe they exist just because of a GR solution.
they were predicted before GR but believed to be a mathematical trick that would need perfect conditions to form (perfectly symmetrical mass distribution). GR just changed that by removing these conditions (the generation of gravitational waves by mass distributions with a quadrupolar moment means).
anyway, you make it sound like it's just a case of GR for black holes. it's not - it's a huge amount of theory and observations that are all consistent. if you want respect then the first thing to do is acknowledge this work exists, and the second is to provide an alternative explanation that works at least as well.
I used to build PCs for fun but I haven't been interested in them for years. apart from playing the very latest 3D first person shooter there is just no point in buying a PC when a laptop offers so much more.
at home I use my laptop as a desktop with wireless internet, keyboard, mouse, speakers and plugging in a large monitor.
some people have complained about it not having 10+ buttons for all the complicated controls, but this controller makes me excited about simple games. I'd buy this just for a pong or airhockey game. full tennis with nets, spin and boundaries would be amazing.
what I'd also love is a bike racing game. with bikes instead of cars your weight distribution matters so now you can lean the controller back, forward and to the sides as well as twisting to the left or right for the steering.
if you're tired after 5 mins of moving part of your body then that's a problem with YOU, not the controller (not that you even have to move much anyway).
heaven forbid you actually consider what it would be like playing a real life game. the thought of moving all of your limbs at once would probably kill you.
you can use as many computers as you want, but only 5 simultaneously. this is very different. the way you say it suggests file loss is inevitable after upgrading your computer 5 times.
the process of authorising and deauthorising computers is very simple.
btw, how many players can you simultaneously play a real CD on? there are benefits and restrictions to everything.
so what you're saying is that these "average people" who know CDs can stop working and who believe you need to buy a whole new computer when the things get a bit slow are somehow buying DRM songs under the impression that things could never possibly go wrong?
it's always a problem when people haven't got a clue what they're doing but DRM is by no means a special case of this.
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you could have shortened your response by just refering him to your sig :-)
of course you can play them in iTunes. just in case: you can also play songs and podcasts and movie trailers and audiobooks downloaded through iTMS in iTunes.
okay then, if only 10% is user needs and there's at least 2 user needs (ripping from CDs and playing music), then you should easily be able to give me at least 18 examples of something iTunes does that doesn't satisfy a user need.
or are you just one of the 90% of people that make up BS statistics on the spot?
this is the 5th generation ipod, duh
but it supports Apple Lossless so if you care about quality rather than ideology you're fine. if you care about ideology then you'd find some other reason not to buy one anyway.
games cannot be obsessive, only people can.
games cannot be twats, only people can.
>point taken to the extreme but where do you draw the line
I don't know but after thinking about it for half a second a good place to start might be that this printer system causes no inconvenience to the user (AFAIK) whereas a house search would.
In China you might get in trouble for wanting to overthrow the government, but in America you can't even copy a DVD you own to your computer.
apart from the local mobs that would hack off your limbs for going against their beliefs, to what extent did Tibet have a viable government?
I've been folowing this a little at Penny Arcade. He seems like a twat. Make an apology and give the money to charity you cheap bastard.
>Most of us can't...
I think you'll find the point is that most of us CAN. "Most people" use Word to write lists, and if the list needs 2 columns they use Excel. It doesn't have to be that way.
And it's not just about linux, his favourite OS is Mac OS X.
If you *need* MS, you probably made a poor decision somewhere along the line. If you have a free choice but choose to stick with MS that's fair enough. There's nothing about being a doctor or lawyer that intrinsically requires a MS operating system or software.
the shuffle and nano are both thinner than AAA batteries so how would that work?
if you really cared about being able to buy lots of batteries then you'd have already bought the shuffle and the battery pack connector.
if it's in the normal DVD packaging then you could leave it unopened and resell if you didn't like the movie. but if it's a cheap copy with their own branding then I think it costs too much. if you're the type of collector who is proud of their collection you wouldn't want this, and if you don't care about your collection the hard copy wouldn't matter too much either.
however it turns out at least it's something new.
are they insulting our intelligence!?
>ibm , as fortune would have it, isn't nearly as evil as they were in the 20th century.
yes, the end of the Nazi deathcamps really made it difficult for them to keep up their evil quotient.
nice speech, but the truth is not democratically accountable.
>The proof offered for the existence of blackholes doesn't convince me. Just because there is a solution to the GR equations doesn't make it physically real.
people don't believe they exist just because of a GR solution.
they were predicted before GR but believed to be a mathematical trick that would need perfect conditions to form (perfectly symmetrical mass distribution). GR just changed that by removing these conditions (the generation of gravitational waves by mass distributions with a quadrupolar moment means).
anyway, you make it sound like it's just a case of GR for black holes. it's not - it's a huge amount of theory and observations that are all consistent. if you want respect then the first thing to do is acknowledge this work exists, and the second is to provide an alternative explanation that works at least as well.
Please learn to write English with correct punctuation and grammar. Then you can start worrying about formatting.
> This is a first for /.
unfortunately, it's not.
I used to build PCs for fun but I haven't been interested in them for years. apart from playing the very latest 3D first person shooter there is just no point in buying a PC when a laptop offers so much more.
at home I use my laptop as a desktop with wireless internet, keyboard, mouse, speakers and plugging in a large monitor.
some people have complained about it not having 10+ buttons for all the complicated controls, but this controller makes me excited about simple games. I'd buy this just for a pong or airhockey game. full tennis with nets, spin and boundaries would be amazing.
what I'd also love is a bike racing game. with bikes instead of cars your weight distribution matters so now you can lean the controller back, forward and to the sides as well as twisting to the left or right for the steering.
if you're tired after 5 mins of moving part of your body then that's a problem with YOU, not the controller (not that you even have to move much anyway).
heaven forbid you actually consider what it would be like playing a real life game. the thought of moving all of your limbs at once would probably kill you.
>You wait, soon what you say will be bogus, then DRM is pushed down our throats.
not unless they also pass a law that makes it illegal to not buy music you don't want to.
>that is indeed the unspinned, real deal truth
no it's not at all.
you can use as many computers as you want, but only 5 simultaneously. this is very different. the way you say it suggests file loss is inevitable after upgrading your computer 5 times.
the process of authorising and deauthorising computers is very simple.
btw, how many players can you simultaneously play a real CD on? there are benefits and restrictions to everything.
the "average person" ?
so what you're saying is that these "average people" who know CDs can stop working and who believe you need to buy a whole new computer when the things get a bit slow are somehow buying DRM songs under the impression that things could never possibly go wrong?
it's always a problem when people haven't got a clue what they're doing but DRM is by no means a special case of this.