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wezzy said:
Ipod is OVERRATED.........THERE i said it:rolleyes:
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People like it more than other players. They sell a lot.

To me it is overrated, but mostly because I don't use mine very much.

I also use my mobile phone to make and receive phone calls, not to "text" or anything else.
 
i find the people who say the ipod is overrated or just plain sucks are the ones who cant afford one or do not like apple.

btw the WWDC Keynote is on live as i type at macrumorslive.com
 
iPods, peaPods, Zune this and mp3 that...whatever. Just give me vinyl. The sooner the better Damn those who call for less.
 
Gene Steinberg said:
It's available in public beta now. I guess you can't wait :)
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I'll definitely take a look at it. If it does perform faster than IE7 and Firefox without bogging my system down with useless processes or hogging my system resources (like iTunes tends to) I'll make it my main browser. I think I'll wait until the October release to check it out though.

-DBTrek
 
DBTrek said:
I'll definitely take a look at it. If it does perform faster than IE7 and Firefox without bogging my system down with useless processes or hogging my system resources (like iTunes tends to) I'll make it my main browser. I think I'll wait until the October release to check it out though.

-DBTrek
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Well, unlike certain other browsers, you can try it and if you don't like it, you can remove it -- completely.
 
Gene Steinberg said:
Well, unlike certain other browsers, you can try it and if you don't like it, you can remove it -- completely.
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Yeah, that made me have my problem a lot longer. I deleted IE files only to watch them come back a few seconds later.
 
Here's an Apple Related Question:

Why is it the rest of the software writing world has discovered how to perform automatic updates . . . but when a new version of iTunes comes out you have to download the entire software package again?

Thanks Apple . . . keep it simple for us. Why have a small 1 or 2 MB update when you can make users download 38+ MB every time you make a little change to your gimpy, non-configurable, stupid, encryption-riddled, media player. Go iTunes!

Ah, that was cathartic.

-DBTrek
 
DBTrek said:
Here's an Apple Related Question:

Why is it the rest of the software writing world has discovered how to perform automatic updates . . . but when a new version of iTunes comes out you have to download the entire software package again?

Thanks Apple . . . keep it simple for us. Why have a small 1 or 2 MB update when you can make users download 38+ MB every time you make a little change to your gimpy, non-configurable, stupid, encryption-riddled, media player. Go iTunes!

Ah, that was cathartic.

-DBTrek
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This may depend on the sort of changes Apple has made. By the way, few consider iTunes "non-configurable," and any encryption used is mandated by the entertainment companies. If you want to talk about encryption/DRM or whatever, ask Microsoft, the past masters at such things.

And if you really hate DRM, let's all band together and rail against the clueless elements of the entertainment industry.
 
Gene Steinberg said:
That's what hosts our sites, as you know. We recently moved to a service that uses CENTOS Enterprise 4.5 for our dual quad-core server.
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I've just moved from Debian linux to Ubuntu - I have it dual-booted with XP home edition and I have to say that I prefer it to Windoze. I can't get rid of XP completely yet and I wouldn't recommend linux to 'non-technical' folks, but I'm completely hooked on it - and all for no money at all. Plus you can contribute to the development of the software - make suggestions for improvements, file bug reports, make new themes and artwork, write new code...

...a geeks paradise :)

The open source community is pretty much against DRM because it undermines 'fair use'.
 
I haven't played with Linux since RedHat 5.0

It was fun, for a computer science major (who ultimately minored in CS and got a degree in history). Kind of a pain in the butt when it came to getting hardware support. I remember immediately after installing RedHat I lost my LAN card and sound board. Blah. Most of the software I wanted to use had to be compiled into an executable and the installation could be a little tricky. I liked the idea of open license, but I didn't like having to spend a couple of hours to get relatively simple stuff working.

I assume it's gotten better since then.

-DBTrek
 
Apple's Broken Promises:

"Apple is the most valuable brand on the planet, making products that everyone wants - but how are its workers treated when the world isn't looking? A BBC documentary team goes undercover to reveal what life is like for workers in China making the iPhone6. And it's not just the factories ... "​

Of course Apple calls the undercover filmed evidence "misrepresentation". Why don't I believe them? I won't be buying anything Apple any time soon.

 
They forget those same factories produce gear for HP, Dell and other tech companies. At least Apple is trying to improve matters. But this will never be perfect.
 
Gene Steinberg said:
They forget those same factories produce gear for HP, Dell and other tech companies. At least Apple is trying to improve matters. But this will never be perfect.
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I buy parts made in China and I've posted other videos about worker life in China. These days I don't even know if it's possible not to buy tech that has no connection to China. But it's not all as bad as we see in that video either. When I bought my last HDD and SSD I checked out the manufacturing facilities as much as I could online. They were new beautiful factories and I didn't see any evidence of the kind of exploitation exposed in the Apple video.

Plus, what I like about the video was how it exposed the corporate lip service that the people at the top dish-out while the little worker is being exploited. It wasn't HP products those workers were building and it wasn't an HP or Dell policy that was supposed to be protecting them. It was Apple. Like the advocate in the video said, There's no way they couldn't know."

I can't help but feel empathy for the little guy, and increasingly, we're seeing the same BS here too. I used to work for Southland Corporation ( 7-11 ) and they had a policy that employees had to put in so much volunteer time ( which was labeled some other euphemism ) or they'd get written up, and after being written-up so many times the policy was to fire the employee. I was getting paid the minimum wage and working the graveyard shift alone and going to university during the day, and had no time to do "volunteer duties". So you can imagine what happened there. Virtually every job I've had, the employer has ignored their own policies whenever it's convenient for them to do so, but when it's supposed to have been for the employee's benefit, I've seen employees strung along and even been told that it isn't the employee's job to interpret the policies :rolleyes:.

I can't help but think that the snakes in suits who feel no remorse over the conditions seen in the Apple's Broken Promises video would be even happier if the conditions here were the same.
 
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