I personaly don't get why most people bitch about with iTunes being a memoryhog. 35MB of memory on a bad day for me. Big whooptyfuckingdo! That means virtualy shit when you have a gig or more of memory (hell 512 it doesn't even mean anything and if you have less you should have MORE). These kind of people are the types that run 4 different IM clients when something like Trillian or Gaim do everything for less than any of the others on thier own. Not to mention theres the other crowd that iTunes crashes on. Thats indicitive of the PC your on being fucked somehow. iTunes runs great for the masses and it's aparent thier system has problems other than iTunes.
iTunes manages my collection excelently by artist & album on the system and however I choose within iTunes (20gigs so it's still small, but partialy since I prune the collection heavily) and provides effortless manageing of music on a spicific player that will renmane nameless.
Funny...you just stated that political comentary has no relevance yet the very movie you are useing for your excuse of not coming up with a reason to backup your claims is a very old political comentary. Maybe your trieing to be funny, but I smell troll.
For the most part the iPod battery "thing" is people who's batteries died after 18 months. Of which, ALL li-ion batteries carry a shelf-life of 18 months so no fsking wonder they stopped working. Anything else is gravy. There really are not that many batteries outside of the usual 5-10 percentile of batteries that are expected to be bad, but those go in under 6 months and are covered by the Apple warranty anyways. PLUS, PLUS!!! li-ion batteries have a finite amount of charge cycles they can do (300-400 is the average. Maybe Apple put some higher quality ones in, but they won't last forever. For the most part the people bemoaning their iPod's batteries going out on them had it happen after their 12 month warranty ran out that's standard and were just too cheap to pay $60 for a 2 year warranty when they picked up the iPod. That lawsuit was based primarily on the 5-10 percentile of bad iPods which is ALLOT when your selling that many and the crack addict iPoders that end up charging their iPod twice a day.
Also Apple began doing their battery replacement program before the lawsuit was even filed. Plus the batteries had been available through other sources for quite a long time before that. They probably figured the 3rd party market would fill the gap as needed with all the other iPod needs (so they never got prepared to be "servicing" batteries), but apparently people were too stupid to figure it out (it's aparently eaisier to just jump onto class action lawsuit and guarantee prices go up for everyone). You'd probably know that though if you'd owned an iPod, laptop, or anything else that uses li-ion that goes through allot of charge cycles. I'm not defending Apple, but this is just the way it is with li-ion batteries. Apple serviced batteries as they should "in warranty." If people are too cheap to spend $60 protection more on a $300+ purchase it's their own damn fault imo.
And lastly I've gone through 2 iPods within the first year, but they were due to my own abuse. Death by chicken soup baptism and frieing it on a PC with a bad PSU. Shockingly because Apple is so bad about repairs they replaced it both times. I even told the guy about the chicken soup. I fully expected to be buying a new iPod that time.
And that hits the problem directly on the fsking head. The government should have absolutely NO buisness dicking with the internet outside of the regulation of ISP's "neutrality" period. Mainly because they have absolutely no control anyways once you browse to a site outside of this fine steaming ball of pooh we call a country. Existing laws accomplish exactly what needs to be covered allready. Child exploitation is indeed very bad, but theres NO reason to punish the masses for the few. Not to mention everytime I hear one shitcock say "well if your not doing anything wrong whats the problem?" I fell the urge to kick a puppy. GPS in every car to make sure your not speeding anyone? oh and of course for your "safety."
You don't have to "conform." I know I sure as hell refuse to. You can however work within the confines of what people can expect with clotheing. Rolling up sleves is acceptable. Bodily mutilation is not. It's very eaisy to dress "your style" without infringeing on what people percieve as "the norm" without much effort. The only problem is you generaly can't get those looks from Walmart and other big B&M stores. Hell I almost want to say anything localy is a miss in those terms. Then again it's possible you live somewhere like San Franciso. Best way to find a look imo thats acceptable is to travel around the world. You can end up so different from everyone else that way and shockingly they accept it. And btw going freelance and haveing stuff like those earhoops is a NIGHTMARE. Thats what I do and I almost have to wear a damn necktie with some of the clients.
Which then leads directly to the awnser of, "if you feel something isn't importaint enough to possibly interupt someone with, it's not worth talking about." That or a spine needs to be grown in most people that TXT all the time. Phone calls=a relationship with the person. TXTing = sterile messages that cost more than a quick phonecall and take a hell of allot longer for each party to send messages that must fit within 143 characters.
The press can't mention it. Can you imagine the flame wars that'd take place? Heck most of the "press" see Nintendo as a "kiddie" console maker. Not to mention most of the gameing press aren't even journalists. For the most part they are clueless people that barely have a high-school degree let alone a Journalism degree (I only know one gameing press person that actually has a degree in Journalism which is kind of importaint). For the most part it's a bunch of "good ol boys" that know a friend, that know a friend, who got them sweet job reviewing games and when thier bias affects a review people blindly believe them.
I always love responses as to why txting is eaiser than calling that just say "it is" with nothing to back it up. Guess how long it takes me to ask if a friend wants to go out and where to? 1-2 minutes. How long does it take you type that shit out and then get a response? There are some rare occurances where txting is nice like when your in a meeting getting info like an address, but not much else. Some of my clients annoy the hell out of me with thier txting me then act supprised when I call back. These are the people that can't learn to use Outlook yet somehow manage to know how to work the most usless part of a cellphone thats a step back in terms of communication. As said on the Boondocks by Samuel Jackson: "2 way pagers are for dumb niggas talking to other dumb niggas about dumb nigga shit..."
You actually have no idea how true that is. I've done the 4-5am come into work thing. Often times I go grab something from a fastfood joint down the street and I stroll back in shortly after others who just got there. That or theres the occasional time I just came in later because "I'll just stay later" thing. Coming in earlier gives you more flexibility than a hard nosed 8am or 9am time you gota be in by. Less stress too if you happen to sleep in till 6am over sleeping in till 9am.
Try this scenario. You get sued by the creator for infringeing and it's going to cost you a few million to settle. Solution? Assasination. No more lawsuit.
Hey maybe I'm onto something here. Wake up tomarow and mysteriously all of SCO's directors and stockholders are mysteriously dead with masses of cheeto's dust fingerprints at each crime scene? Rock on!
Only skin that should be showing is on your face, neck, and hands so if you got a tattoo on any of those three places I'd generaly have the first impression of "doesn't look before leaping" impression which would be true. Same goes for those dumb ass hoops people are putting in thier ears now. If you have those hoop earings it's time to pull them out and "conform" to the job norm. You were allready conforming when you got those. It's too late. Kinda like the random Asian character tattoos people have. You try so very hard to look different, but your not. You did that because (drumbroll please) you saw someone else that had those and you thought they were cool. Too bad you didn't think about the possible ramifications of how that could imact you before doing it.
Who needs add blocking extensions with FF? I just edit my hostfile. No spooky software there. Just me decideing data from certain servers are not deemed "required" to me.
Yeah...and Sony is going to just give you access to all those games for free? Not to mention all the devolpers that just can't wait to repackage thier games for the PSP?
I can do that too, but I never needed to screw with anything. Just bought a Logitech Cordless Keyboard & Mouse. Has all my controls up top (volume wheel as well). No need for the typical shortcuts and if anyone else is on the PC they know how to work the music off the keyboard eaisy. I don't have to tell them to hit the S key to stop the music.
Hell it's fairly eaisy to add a second stripe scanner into the box and people would never even notice unless they really looked between the cracks to see two metal humps (swipe versions).
As long as you live in a decent town/city you can almost always find a "real" electronics component store. They aren't on every corner (usualy in industrial areas), they NEVER do advertiseing, it's almost guarenteed they are a hole in the wall, but they are there. I live in Las Vegas and I almost gave up all hope when I found not one but two stores I can fullfill all my component needs with (damn nice staff too). Unfortionately since I found them both the stores merged, but they are better off that way. The stores were like within a mile or two of each other and each store had thier thing. Hell they even do prototypeing and production boards which is seriously convinent (but this is a convention town so ya know...).
Plus time required to dick with it all. Time is worth good money to some of us and I think the Xbox frontend can be done with Tivo as well (just another minor hack). Plus it's doubtful the PC you used is anywhere near as quite or as small as an actual Tivo (hideing it is lame).
A) High resolution isn't that necicary (480i is good enough for the storage space).
B) Monthly fee? Tivo (Series 2) was free AR and $300 for lifetime sub and I backed everything up for that day the drive goes south.
Now I love to build another inocuious PC whenever I can for some asanine task, but some like recording TV shows you kind of want something that "just works" and won't fuck up one day because one script file corrupted one day or the machine got a virus. Not to mention you can't even build a decent PVR to compete with a Tivo for $300. You can sure build a really crappy one for that much though.
Difference here is the studios have begun messing with prices. Like say the Verizon $2.50 songs that last 60 days + cost of downloading the data. Jobs wants to keep the price at 99 cents (which is in all honesty is still too expensive for digital distribution) and the industry has been trieing to gang up and allow "varriable priceing" which would likely even up being closer to $2.50 that Verizon pays and you'd never see a song below 99 cents that way thats "unpopular."
Shesh...and you filled it out? I'd a just filled everything out with "I do not awnser litmus tests" or if it was a multiple choice thing the same awnser for everything. Scary indeed.
Yeah good luck with that. These companies aren't that smart. They'd kill the idea before it got on paper screaming "theres cracked DVD content on there!!!"
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I personaly don't get why most people bitch about with iTunes being a memoryhog. 35MB of memory on a bad day for me. Big whooptyfuckingdo! That means virtualy shit when you have a gig or more of memory (hell 512 it doesn't even mean anything and if you have less you should have MORE). These kind of people are the types that run 4 different IM clients when something like Trillian or Gaim do everything for less than any of the others on thier own. Not to mention theres the other crowd that iTunes crashes on. Thats indicitive of the PC your on being fucked somehow. iTunes runs great for the masses and it's aparent thier system has problems other than iTunes.
iTunes manages my collection excelently by artist & album on the system and however I choose within iTunes (20gigs so it's still small, but partialy since I prune the collection heavily) and provides effortless manageing of music on a spicific player that will renmane nameless.
Funny...you just stated that political comentary has no relevance yet the very movie you are useing for your excuse of not coming up with a reason to backup your claims is a very old political comentary. Maybe your trieing to be funny, but I smell troll.
For the most part the iPod battery "thing" is people who's batteries died after 18 months. Of which, ALL li-ion batteries carry a shelf-life of 18 months so no fsking wonder they stopped working. Anything else is gravy. There really are not that many batteries outside of the usual 5-10 percentile of batteries that are expected to be bad, but those go in under 6 months and are covered by the Apple warranty anyways. PLUS, PLUS!!! li-ion batteries have a finite amount of charge cycles they can do (300-400 is the average. Maybe Apple put some higher quality ones in, but they won't last forever. For the most part the people bemoaning their iPod's batteries going out on them had it happen after their 12 month warranty ran out that's standard and were just too cheap to pay $60 for a 2 year warranty when they picked up the iPod. That lawsuit was based primarily on the 5-10 percentile of bad iPods which is ALLOT when your selling that many and the crack addict iPoders that end up charging their iPod twice a day.
Also Apple began doing their battery replacement program before the lawsuit was even filed. Plus the batteries had been available through other sources for quite a long time before that. They probably figured the 3rd party market would fill the gap as needed with all the other iPod needs (so they never got prepared to be "servicing" batteries), but apparently people were too stupid to figure it out (it's aparently eaisier to just jump onto class action lawsuit and guarantee prices go up for everyone). You'd probably know that though if you'd owned an iPod, laptop, or anything else that uses li-ion that goes through allot of charge cycles. I'm not defending Apple, but this is just the way it is with li-ion batteries. Apple serviced batteries as they should "in warranty." If people are too cheap to spend $60 protection more on a $300+ purchase it's their own damn fault imo.
And lastly I've gone through 2 iPods within the first year, but they were due to my own abuse. Death by chicken soup baptism and frieing it on a PC with a bad PSU. Shockingly because Apple is so bad about repairs they replaced it both times. I even told the guy about the chicken soup. I fully expected to be buying a new iPod that time.
And that hits the problem directly on the fsking head. The government should have absolutely NO buisness dicking with the internet outside of the regulation of ISP's "neutrality" period. Mainly because they have absolutely no control anyways once you browse to a site outside of this fine steaming ball of pooh we call a country. Existing laws accomplish exactly what needs to be covered allready. Child exploitation is indeed very bad, but theres NO reason to punish the masses for the few. Not to mention everytime I hear one shitcock say "well if your not doing anything wrong whats the problem?" I fell the urge to kick a puppy. GPS in every car to make sure your not speeding anyone? oh and of course for your "safety."
You don't have to "conform." I know I sure as hell refuse to. You can however work within the confines of what people can expect with clotheing. Rolling up sleves is acceptable. Bodily mutilation is not. It's very eaisy to dress "your style" without infringeing on what people percieve as "the norm" without much effort. The only problem is you generaly can't get those looks from Walmart and other big B&M stores. Hell I almost want to say anything localy is a miss in those terms. Then again it's possible you live somewhere like San Franciso. Best way to find a look imo thats acceptable is to travel around the world. You can end up so different from everyone else that way and shockingly they accept it. And btw going freelance and haveing stuff like those earhoops is a NIGHTMARE. Thats what I do and I almost have to wear a damn necktie with some of the clients.
Which then leads directly to the awnser of, "if you feel something isn't importaint enough to possibly interupt someone with, it's not worth talking about." That or a spine needs to be grown in most people that TXT all the time. Phone calls=a relationship with the person. TXTing = sterile messages that cost more than a quick phonecall and take a hell of allot longer for each party to send messages that must fit within 143 characters.
The press can't mention it. Can you imagine the flame wars that'd take place? Heck most of the "press" see Nintendo as a "kiddie" console maker. Not to mention most of the gameing press aren't even journalists. For the most part they are clueless people that barely have a high-school degree let alone a Journalism degree (I only know one gameing press person that actually has a degree in Journalism which is kind of importaint). For the most part it's a bunch of "good ol boys" that know a friend, that know a friend, who got them sweet job reviewing games and when thier bias affects a review people blindly believe them.
I always love responses as to why txting is eaiser than calling that just say "it is" with nothing to back it up. Guess how long it takes me to ask if a friend wants to go out and where to? 1-2 minutes. How long does it take you type that shit out and then get a response? There are some rare occurances where txting is nice like when your in a meeting getting info like an address, but not much else. Some of my clients annoy the hell out of me with thier txting me then act supprised when I call back. These are the people that can't learn to use Outlook yet somehow manage to know how to work the most usless part of a cellphone thats a step back in terms of communication. As said on the Boondocks by Samuel Jackson: "2 way pagers are for dumb niggas talking to other dumb niggas about dumb nigga shit..."
You actually have no idea how true that is. I've done the 4-5am come into work thing. Often times I go grab something from a fastfood joint down the street and I stroll back in shortly after others who just got there. That or theres the occasional time I just came in later because "I'll just stay later" thing. Coming in earlier gives you more flexibility than a hard nosed 8am or 9am time you gota be in by. Less stress too if you happen to sleep in till 6am over sleeping in till 9am.
Try this scenario. You get sued by the creator for infringeing and it's going to cost you a few million to settle. Solution? Assasination. No more lawsuit.
Hey maybe I'm onto something here. Wake up tomarow and mysteriously all of SCO's directors and stockholders are mysteriously dead with masses of cheeto's dust fingerprints at each crime scene? Rock on!
Only skin that should be showing is on your face, neck, and hands so if you got a tattoo on any of those three places I'd generaly have the first impression of "doesn't look before leaping" impression which would be true. Same goes for those dumb ass hoops people are putting in thier ears now. If you have those hoop earings it's time to pull them out and "conform" to the job norm. You were allready conforming when you got those. It's too late. Kinda like the random Asian character tattoos people have. You try so very hard to look different, but your not. You did that because (drumbroll please) you saw someone else that had those and you thought they were cool. Too bad you didn't think about the possible ramifications of how that could imact you before doing it.
Who needs add blocking extensions with FF? I just edit my hostfile. No spooky software there. Just me decideing data from certain servers are not deemed "required" to me.
You should check thier site. De-iceing a wing inside a wind-tunnel. http://www.iceengineering.com/images/video/deicing -aerofoil.mpg
Don't mind them. They are Sony fanboys. The brainwashing has hampered thier ability to make cohesive arguments.
Keep your eye on the Revolution. Theres a very good chance you'll get that wish.
Yeah...and Sony is going to just give you access to all those games for free? Not to mention all the devolpers that just can't wait to repackage thier games for the PSP?
I can do that too, but I never needed to screw with anything. Just bought a Logitech Cordless Keyboard & Mouse. Has all my controls up top (volume wheel as well). No need for the typical shortcuts and if anyone else is on the PC they know how to work the music off the keyboard eaisy. I don't have to tell them to hit the S key to stop the music.
Hell it's fairly eaisy to add a second stripe scanner into the box and people would never even notice unless they really looked between the cracks to see two metal humps (swipe versions).
As long as you live in a decent town/city you can almost always find a "real" electronics component store. They aren't on every corner (usualy in industrial areas), they NEVER do advertiseing, it's almost guarenteed they are a hole in the wall, but they are there. I live in Las Vegas and I almost gave up all hope when I found not one but two stores I can fullfill all my component needs with (damn nice staff too). Unfortionately since I found them both the stores merged, but they are better off that way. The stores were like within a mile or two of each other and each store had thier thing. Hell they even do prototypeing and production boards which is seriously convinent (but this is a convention town so ya know...).
Plus time required to dick with it all. Time is worth good money to some of us and I think the Xbox frontend can be done with Tivo as well (just another minor hack). Plus it's doubtful the PC you used is anywhere near as quite or as small as an actual Tivo (hideing it is lame).
Solution? Backup your junk, reformat to windows, and play thier game. You have to put it all on another drive anyways.
A) High resolution isn't that necicary (480i is good enough for the storage space).
B) Monthly fee? Tivo (Series 2) was free AR and $300 for lifetime sub and I backed everything up for that day the drive goes south.
Now I love to build another inocuious PC whenever I can for some asanine task, but some like recording TV shows you kind of want something that "just works" and won't fuck up one day because one script file corrupted one day or the machine got a virus. Not to mention you can't even build a decent PVR to compete with a Tivo for $300. You can sure build a really crappy one for that much though.
Difference here is the studios have begun messing with prices. Like say the Verizon $2.50 songs that last 60 days + cost of downloading the data. Jobs wants to keep the price at 99 cents (which is in all honesty is still too expensive for digital distribution) and the industry has been trieing to gang up and allow "varriable priceing" which would likely even up being closer to $2.50 that Verizon pays and you'd never see a song below 99 cents that way thats "unpopular."
Shesh...and you filled it out? I'd a just filled everything out with "I do not awnser litmus tests" or if it was a multiple choice thing the same awnser for everything. Scary indeed.
Yeah good luck with that. These companies aren't that smart. They'd kill the idea before it got on paper screaming "theres cracked DVD content on there!!!"