You really are an Apple zealot in the worst sense. Apple does tend to give people the impression that their products have a higher quality when manufactured. However, my power mac 6500 still had fans that died in it equally as often as a standard PC of any brand. And your comment here:
"So MPEG-4 AAC is not proprietary, and neither the AAC format nor the DRM technology is specific to Apple."
Really. I see. So, why is it that I can't play a song I purchased on iTunes on any other device, even if it supported the ACC standard. Oh, that's right, the propietary DRM scheme of iTunes and the iPod.
"Ooooh, battery problems. Oh, no! By the time the battery dies, I'll be ready for a bigger iPod. I'll probably get one of those $50 replacement batteries anyway, just because $50 is good for a FireWire hard drive, but I wouldn't mind buying a new iPod in three years."
Fine, have it your way. Not everybody can afford to buy a new iPod in 18 months just because the battery dies. I don't care who makes a product, it will never last on the market with failure rates of a major component 18 months down the line. Imagine buying a TV every 18 months becuase the picture tube dies that often. People are not cheapskates just because they can't afford to shell out $299, $399, or even $499 because of a damn battery. But ofcourse you always have the option of sending Apple your iPod and $99 just to get a refurbed one. And I don't know where the hell you got the $50 battery - Apple charges $99 and you have to give up your iPod to get a different one. How nice.
Hey, mod this post up. (I don't see how it's off topic people!!) If apple isn't going to cut prices, another competitor will - and sounds like they did. The Zen isn't made by Apple, and all the Apple "loyalists" will ignore it as a result, but for the average consumer, this product competes very nicely. The iPod is built well, very well that is, but with the battery problems it has, the Zen has that advantage of removeable batteries and a lower cost. The only thing the Zen doesn't do is sync up with iTunes and play a propietary Apple format... which doesn't bother me one bit to be honest. I can't speak for the quality of the Zen, but I'm sure it has a warranty.
I'm all for stability, and I do appreciate Red Hat's backporting and all that, sometimes. Other times it makes using other software packages that require specific versions of software a real bitch. Cold Fusion MX is a great example of that. It's *finally* able to support Red Hat 9's latest version of Apache.
Back to my point though.... I do contribute to Red Hat in various ways. One such way is buying boxed versions of almost every release they have shipped for the last 5 or 6 years. I didn't have to do that, but I did. My company also didn't have to do that, but did. Red Hat programmers didn't write a majority of the code that is in their distribution. Open Source programmers did. While I appreciate the fact that Red Hat puts together the code nicely in neat little package, I don't think it completely justifies the price they charge, and the fact that it's an absolute requirement in their eyes.
Granted, I will probably purchase a license or two for my company because the support would be nice in a business setting. However, small businesses will not appreciate this since using Red Hat has been a great solution to help business avoid high server-software costs from Redmond. I don't think any business, large or small, will want to use Fedora in production.
Ok, I believe the key word with RHES is "mandatory" subscription license. I don't think you can just download it from their website and install it without that, which is dissappointing for people who never intend to pay for support that they don't need.
"Hell, I could write a program like that, make it compare two source trees that make up 10,000 lines of code, and have it print out that 1,000,000 of those 10,000 lines are identical."
Hmm.... 1,000,000 out of 10,000.... Interesting math. I bet not even SCO would would use that kind of math in their logic! Oh wait, we are talking about SCO here....
Yeah, the sales people at those stores are horribly clueless. For example, the newer model is the one that does NOT come with the network adapter bundle. Their still pimping out the old 39001 with that deal. If you want the new model, you have to purchase the standalone PS2 for $180. The sales guy at Target was telling people all around him how he doesn't understand why people would want the standalone when for $20 you get so much more. He obviously isn't bothered by the extreme loudness of the fans in that 39001 and before models. The fact of the matter is, those sales people are not educated at all on the products, and really have no business giving advice to people who don't know any better.
Target, Walmart, you name it. I have purchased several at Target so far. It's very worth it, better disc support and they are EXTREMELY quiet in comparison to the older models, they finally got that right.
To get around using br and font, you would have to use CSS and div tags combined, neither of which are 100% compliant across the browser-board yet. I go with what works on everything until browsers are better standardized.
Actually... just because your Sony doesn't claim support for DVD+/-RW media doesn't mean it doesn't have it. I know for a fact that with the right brand of discs, you can get every single model of the PS2 sold in the U.S. to read them. I have used every model:
SCPH-30001 SCPH-30001 R SCPH-35001 SCPH-39001 SCPH-50001
You have to usually burn the DVDs at 1x, NO FASTER! And I generally find that Verbatim discs work the best - but other brands do work, you just have to try one to know. The later models obviously do better, the SCPH-30001 is the worst out of the bunch - but it WILL read discs burned at 1x of both the -R and +R formats. If you can't get it to work, you aren't trying hard enough:)
I believe they would need to know basic unix commands to get the pages in the right places unless you are using a non-*nix web server, in which case, may the force be with you because nothing else will.
I hate programs that write crappy pages for you. I have the opinion that if everybody who wanted to create a webpage simply learned a little html before doing so, the web would be a better place. It doesn't have to be flashy - just learn the basics, like body, table, font, p, br, etc. A little knowledge goes a long way. I'm sure even an 11 yr old could understand basic concepts like those, probably even quicker than most adults. You could "borrow" a page layout from some other site, and set up templates for them to edit. It could fun, while at the same time I don't think it hurts to challenge a kid.
Just something to think about - I never had video games like "Man Hunt" when I was a kid, I was busy playing Super Mario Brothers and Rad Racer. I do think I turned out fine.... but man, I think games like Man Hunt are disturbing to anyone, not just kids. I don't want to know what kind of 10 year would want to play that game.
When is somebody going to stand up and say enough is enough? A better question is, who CAN stand up to this? I don't know enough about how laws like this get passed without consent from the citizens of this country, so I would simply like to know who I can write and bitch to so this doesn't happen.
I realize they test them - they would have to. But that doesn't mean that an ipod works fine the day they tested it, but say I would drop it once and that adds to the 30x it had been dropped already, and it the drive could die. I think this is a horrible idea.
I can't afford an ipod yet, but if I could, and it needed a new battery, I'd be mad as hell if I couldn't just get the battery in mine replaced. I don't want somebody else's ipod, I would want the one that I took very special care of. For all these people know, they could get one back that has been dropped a lot, etc. Those things have moving parts in them, so dropping them over time will definitely do some long term damage.
Not to nitpick your comments.... but yeah, Windows 2000 was created 5 years ago. I used it in beta stages in 98 and then the final was released in 99 for retail.
I know, I'm being dumb and offtopic, but you started it:)
"This is necessary because Windows Firewire ports are usually non-standard."
What the hell are you talking about? As far as I know there is no such thing as a "windows firewire port", it's PC or it's Mac. You can run windows on a PC - so are you saying Windows uses Firewire differently or a PC has a different standard of firewire than a Mac does?
Some ISPs do both - Netzero dialup for example forces you to use their smtp servers to send any mail over smtp, while I can't comment on the incoming, but I do of others that do it both ways.
Yeah, thank you. I guess people think I'm flamebait because I may have offended the poster for wasting his time submitting a dumb question to slashdot, and by some miracle, Cliff thought it was relevant and people would care, instead of simply using google to find the answer in less than 10 seconds.
I find it amazing that I submit articles about stuff somebody might care about, and somebody else submits a question than could proably be easily answered on groups.google.com, and it gets posted. Wow. A simple search would have eliminated the need for this submission:
The point is, the serial numbers I would be transmitting may or may not already be in use by somebody else, may overlap, and in general, simply destroy any tracking data they had collected on me because it would be entirely watered down with useless crap.
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You really are an Apple zealot in the worst sense. Apple does tend to give people the impression that their products have a higher quality when manufactured. However, my power mac 6500 still had fans that died in it equally as often as a standard PC of any brand. And your comment here:
"So MPEG-4 AAC is not proprietary, and neither the AAC format nor the DRM technology is specific to Apple."
Really. I see. So, why is it that I can't play a song I purchased on iTunes on any other device, even if it supported the ACC standard. Oh, that's right, the propietary DRM scheme of iTunes and the iPod.
"Ooooh, battery problems. Oh, no! By the time the battery dies, I'll be ready for a bigger iPod. I'll probably get one of those $50 replacement batteries anyway, just because $50 is good for a FireWire hard drive, but I wouldn't mind buying a new iPod in three years."
Fine, have it your way. Not everybody can afford to buy a new iPod in 18 months just because the battery dies. I don't care who makes a product, it will never last on the market with failure rates of a major component 18 months down the line. Imagine buying a TV every 18 months becuase the picture tube dies that often. People are not cheapskates just because they can't afford to shell out $299, $399, or even $499 because of a damn battery. But ofcourse you always have the option of sending Apple your iPod and $99 just to get a refurbed one. And I don't know where the hell you got the $50 battery - Apple charges $99 and you have to give up your iPod to get a different one. How nice.
Hey, mod this post up. (I don't see how it's off topic people!!) If apple isn't going to cut prices, another competitor will - and sounds like they did. The Zen isn't made by Apple, and all the Apple "loyalists" will ignore it as a result, but for the average consumer, this product competes very nicely. The iPod is built well, very well that is, but with the battery problems it has, the Zen has that advantage of removeable batteries and a lower cost. The only thing the Zen doesn't do is sync up with iTunes and play a propietary Apple format... which doesn't bother me one bit to be honest. I can't speak for the quality of the Zen, but I'm sure it has a warranty.
I'm all for stability, and I do appreciate Red Hat's backporting and all that, sometimes. Other times it makes using other software packages that require specific versions of software a real bitch. Cold Fusion MX is a great example of that. It's *finally* able to support Red Hat 9's latest version of Apache.
Back to my point though.... I do contribute to Red Hat in various ways. One such way is buying boxed versions of almost every release they have shipped for the last 5 or 6 years. I didn't have to do that, but I did. My company also didn't have to do that, but did. Red Hat programmers didn't write a majority of the code that is in their distribution. Open Source programmers did. While I appreciate the fact that Red Hat puts together the code nicely in neat little package, I don't think it completely justifies the price they charge, and the fact that it's an absolute requirement in their eyes.
Granted, I will probably purchase a license or two for my company because the support would be nice in a business setting. However, small businesses will not appreciate this since using Red Hat has been a great solution to help business avoid high server-software costs from Redmond. I don't think any business, large or small, will want to use Fedora in production.
Ok, I believe the key word with RHES is "mandatory" subscription license. I don't think you can just download it from their website and install it without that, which is dissappointing for people who never intend to pay for support that they don't need.
"Hell, I could write a program like that, make it compare two source trees that make up 10,000 lines of code, and have it print out that 1,000,000 of those 10,000 lines are identical."
Hmm.... 1,000,000 out of 10,000.... Interesting math. I bet not even SCO would would use that kind of math in their logic! Oh wait, we are talking about SCO here....
Yeah, the sales people at those stores are horribly clueless. For example, the newer model is the one that does NOT come with the network adapter bundle. Their still pimping out the old 39001 with that deal. If you want the new model, you have to purchase the standalone PS2 for $180. The sales guy at Target was telling people all around him how he doesn't understand why people would want the standalone when for $20 you get so much more. He obviously isn't bothered by the extreme loudness of the fans in that 39001 and before models. The fact of the matter is, those sales people are not educated at all on the products, and really have no business giving advice to people who don't know any better.
Target, Walmart, you name it. I have purchased several at Target so far. It's very worth it, better disc support and they are EXTREMELY quiet in comparison to the older models, they finally got that right.
To get around using br and font, you would have to use CSS and div tags combined, neither of which are 100% compliant across the browser-board yet. I go with what works on everything until browsers are better standardized.
Actually... just because your Sony doesn't claim support for DVD+/-RW media doesn't mean it doesn't have it. I know for a fact that with the right brand of discs, you can get every single model of the PS2 sold in the U.S. to read them. I have used every model:
:)
SCPH-30001
SCPH-30001 R
SCPH-35001
SCPH-39001
SCPH-50001
You have to usually burn the DVDs at 1x, NO FASTER! And I generally find that Verbatim discs work the best - but other brands do work, you just have to try one to know. The later models obviously do better, the SCPH-30001 is the worst out of the bunch - but it WILL read discs burned at 1x of both the -R and +R formats. If you can't get it to work, you aren't trying hard enough
BTW, what is Playstation BB??
I believe they would need to know basic unix commands to get the pages in the right places unless you are using a non-*nix web server, in which case, may the force be with you because nothing else will.
I hate programs that write crappy pages for you. I have the opinion that if everybody who wanted to create a webpage simply learned a little html before doing so, the web would be a better place. It doesn't have to be flashy - just learn the basics, like body, table, font, p, br, etc. A little knowledge goes a long way. I'm sure even an 11 yr old could understand basic concepts like those, probably even quicker than most adults. You could "borrow" a page layout from some other site, and set up templates for them to edit. It could fun, while at the same time I don't think it hurts to challenge a kid.
Just something to think about - I never had video games like "Man Hunt" when I was a kid, I was busy playing Super Mario Brothers and Rad Racer. I do think I turned out fine.... but man, I think games like Man Hunt are disturbing to anyone, not just kids. I don't want to know what kind of 10 year would want to play that game.
When is somebody going to stand up and say enough is enough? A better question is, who CAN stand up to this? I don't know enough about how laws like this get passed without consent from the citizens of this country, so I would simply like to know who I can write and bitch to so this doesn't happen.
I realize they test them - they would have to. But that doesn't mean that an ipod works fine the day they tested it, but say I would drop it once and that adds to the 30x it had been dropped already, and it the drive could die. I think this is a horrible idea.
Free of charge? Did you miss the part about it costing you $99?
I can't afford an ipod yet, but if I could, and it needed a new battery, I'd be mad as hell if I couldn't just get the battery in mine replaced. I don't want somebody else's ipod, I would want the one that I took very special care of. For all these people know, they could get one back that has been dropped a lot, etc. Those things have moving parts in them, so dropping them over time will definitely do some long term damage.
Not to nitpick your comments.... but yeah, Windows 2000 was created 5 years ago. I used it in beta stages in 98 and then the final was released in 99 for retail.
:)
I know, I'm being dumb and offtopic, but you started it
"This is necessary because Windows Firewire ports are usually non-standard."
What the hell are you talking about? As far as I know there is no such thing as a "windows firewire port", it's PC or it's Mac. You can run windows on a PC - so are you saying Windows uses Firewire differently or a PC has a different standard of firewire than a Mac does?
Some ISPs do both - Netzero dialup for example forces you to use their smtp servers to send any mail over smtp, while I can't comment on the incoming, but I do of others that do it both ways.
I'm very dissappointed in Red Hat because I've purchased every single one of their releases since 6.2, with one exception - 8.0.
Yeah, thank you. I guess people think I'm flamebait because I may have offended the poster for wasting his time submitting a dumb question to slashdot, and by some miracle, Cliff thought it was relevant and people would care, instead of simply using google to find the answer in less than 10 seconds.
I find it amazing that I submit articles about stuff somebody might care about, and somebody else submits a question than could proably be easily answered on groups.google.com, and it gets posted. Wow. A simple search would have eliminated the need for this submission:
Newsgroup post
The point is, the serial numbers I would be transmitting may or may not already be in use by somebody else, may overlap, and in general, simply destroy any tracking data they had collected on me because it would be entirely watered down with useless crap.
Really? Naughty Dog sold their engine to the creators of R&C? I had not heard that before, but the games look amazingly similar.