My, now "old", 4G iPod has absolutely no problem handling this crazy drag and drop. I can browse the drive using "folders" that are a built in feature of the FAT32 FS. Or, just ask it to index all my songs (with their gaint strings), and it does so without any noticeable trouble.
Although the parent's main point is completely correct.
There's no physical or logical lockouts on music on an iPod.
That would be like saying you can't browse the web efficiently because IE doesn't let you.
See, like most of life's problems, this one can be solved with free, open source technologies.:)
You should probably double check yourself before you start calling other's faults. I believe it goes something like: "Suppose if two swallows carried it together?" "No, they'd have to have it on a line." The line was correct, or at least very close, even if not that fitting. The whooshing was maybe a tad more in your direction?
Not that I want to get into a long discussion about this, but the use of a goto can be entirely justified. Though, the only one I know off the top of my head is in C for error/"exception" handling. Of course it's not -necessary-, but that's not to say it isn't justifiable, or a good solution.
Like I said, I don't want to waste my and everyone else's time explaining this, but if you don't understand/believe just google up "goto error handling" or some such.
Seriously though, broad generalities are never true.:P
Ok, not making a judgment here either way, but given the nature of the suspicion, don't the following two:
"B. I write for a living -- thousands of words a day, generally. C. I take notice of Slashdot articles that are pertinent to my future, such as this one."
only highlight the concerns? With the phrase "write for a living" and noting that this one is "pertinent to [your] future"; doesn't it just seem like you're trying to hint that this was a corporate sponsored post?
I'm gonna be driving through neighborhoods taking small pictures of people's houses as I pass, and cataloging them for searching. I won't be showing pictures that anyone else couldn't see on their own, and the pictures will always be displayed in incomplete snippets. If you still do not wish for me to do this with your house, just tell me.
I read this summary and simply *had* to poke my iPod, which is sitting infront of me, plugged into this Fedora Core 5 machine, to make sure it was still there. I agree with other posters, iTunes is bloated and crappy, and linux has great support for the iPod. FC5 instantly recognizes it, and I use (and prefer) GTKpod which is slim, simple and fast for importing/editing my iPod songs.
How is it the article so elegantly avoided the obvious answer to it's intro question, 'will <Linux> work with my iPod?' Shouldn't somebody be writing an article about how Linux is keeping up with the times so well, as it has multiple free programs that offer great ipod support?
Oh, right when I wanted to chime in with that you take it! But agreed! And Clerks II alone puts cracks in this whole all-the-recent/summer-movies-are-terrible idea.
"Insightful"... typo? Should read "misleading"?
I've been running Picasa on my Fedora machine for quite a while now. Sure it's on Wine, but they helped out the Wine project in the process, so all the better!
This whole thing seems silly; consoles ARE computers. They're specialized computers and really nothing more.
Sony's move here makes sense too, considering MS did a similar thing with their xbox360. With the original xbox they were all about trying to show that it wasn't a PC (obfuscating the usb ports), and when I spoke with someone working on the 360 he said they really didn't care about trying to make any distinctions.
Sony is taking a logical and progressive step here by allowing users to upgrade their hardware in pieces instead of forcing consumers to go mac style and buy a whole new machine all at once (who likes that?).
Given developers might not like the changing hardware, we've certainly been able to pull it off in the PC market by giving minimal and recommended hardware specs. So who says they can't take a similar approach with the PS3? Besides, if they do allow users to modify a large number of the hardware components (this seems a bit doubtful), then hopefully Sony will limit the available hardware to reduce software compatibility issues?
...the people as they are the ones who elected the governemnt
Sorry, that's not the way elections work here (can you say electoral college?).
And there are so many things wrong with the idea that America is a true democracy and the government represents it's people that I really don't have time (or intereest) to detail them all.
oh and Considering that the American government is a democratic one (so much so that it thinks it right to "impose" its democratic vision to other countries)
You're saying that the nature of a highly democratic government is to impose it's vision on other countries? Please reference http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=democracy for further assistance.
Slashdot Mirror
What? Care to explain? Because at present that looks like flamebait.
load rockbox http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/WhyRoc
My, now "old", 4G iPod has absolutely no problem handling this crazy drag and drop. I can browse the drive using "folders" that are a built in feature of the FAT32 FS. Or, just ask it to index all my songs (with their gaint strings), and it does so without any noticeable trouble.
Although the parent's main point is completely correct.
There's no physical or logical lockouts on music on an iPod.
That would be like saying you can't browse the web efficiently because IE doesn't let you.
See, like most of life's problems, this one can be solved with free, open source technologies.
~ this feels so off topic but... ~
You should probably double check yourself before you start calling other's faults.
I believe it goes something like: "Suppose if two swallows carried it together?" "No, they'd have to have it on a line." The line was correct, or at least very close, even if not that fitting. The whooshing was maybe a tad more in your direction?
Not that I want to get into a long discussion about this, but the use of a goto can be entirely justified. Though, the only one I know off the top of my head is in C for error/"exception" handling. Of course it's not -necessary-, but that's not to say it isn't justifiable, or a good solution.
:P
Like I said, I don't want to waste my and everyone else's time explaining this, but if you don't understand/believe just google up "goto error handling" or some such.
Seriously though, broad generalities are never true.
Ok, not making a judgment here either way, but given the nature of the suspicion, don't the following two:
"B. I write for a living -- thousands of words a day, generally.
C. I take notice of Slashdot articles that are pertinent to my future, such as this one."
only highlight the concerns? With the phrase "write for a living" and noting that this one is "pertinent to [your] future"; doesn't it just seem like you're trying to hint that this was a corporate sponsored post?
Hi,
I'm gonna be driving through neighborhoods taking small pictures of people's houses as I pass, and cataloging them for searching. I won't be showing pictures that anyone else couldn't see on their own, and the pictures will always be displayed in incomplete snippets. If you still do not wish for me to do this with your house, just tell me.
Sounds like a much better analogy to me.
I read this summary and simply *had* to poke my iPod, which is sitting infront of me, plugged into this Fedora Core 5 machine, to make sure it was still there. I agree with other posters, iTunes is bloated and crappy, and linux has great support for the iPod. FC5 instantly recognizes it, and I use (and prefer) GTKpod which is slim, simple and fast for importing/editing my iPod songs.
How is it the article so elegantly avoided the obvious answer to it's intro question, 'will <Linux> work with my iPod?' Shouldn't somebody be writing an article about how Linux is keeping up with the times so well, as it has multiple free programs that offer great ipod support?
I assume this type of action would be of the same legality as Google's caching. Which has to my knowledge gone unquestioned for years.
That's just silly- you can't fit a dump truck in just a handful of terabytes!
Oh, right when I wanted to chime in with that you take it!
But agreed! And Clerks II alone puts cracks in this whole all-the-recent/summer-movies-are-terrible idea.
mod parent +1, Funny
WINE: Wine Is Not an Emulator.
It's all in the name.
"Insightful"... typo? Should read "misleading"?
I've been running Picasa on my Fedora machine for quite a while now. Sure it's on Wine, but they helped out the Wine project in the process, so all the better!
Well, they did ;). Poster got it wrong, hence the "oops."
This whole thing seems silly; consoles ARE computers. They're specialized computers and really nothing more.
Sony's move here makes sense too, considering MS did a similar thing with their xbox360. With the original xbox they were all about trying to show that it wasn't a PC (obfuscating the usb ports), and when I spoke with someone working on the 360 he said they really didn't care about trying to make any distinctions.
Sony is taking a logical and progressive step here by allowing users to upgrade their hardware in pieces instead of forcing consumers to go mac style and buy a whole new machine all at once (who likes that?).
Given developers might not like the changing hardware, we've certainly been able to pull it off in the PC market by giving minimal and recommended hardware specs. So who says they can't take a similar approach with the PS3? Besides, if they do allow users to modify a large number of the hardware components (this seems a bit doubtful), then hopefully Sony will limit the available hardware to reduce software compatibility issues?
...the people as they are the ones who elected the governemnt
y for further assistance.
Sorry, that's not the way elections work here (can you say electoral college?). And there are so many things wrong with the idea that America is a true democracy and the government represents it's people that I really don't have time (or intereest) to detail them all.
oh and
Considering that the American government is a democratic one (so much so that it thinks it right to "impose" its democratic vision to other countries)
You're saying that the nature of a highly democratic government is to impose it's vision on other countries? Please reference http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=democrac