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Re: I hate Apple
« Reply #30 on: April 03, 2008, 09:11:36 am »
Let me know how the touch goes for you if you get one Choop. I was hanging out for the iphone but I just got a (relatively cheap) new phone anyway so I'm wondering if it might be worth settling since I was mainly interested in it for the tiny computer features rather than the phone features.
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Re: I hate Apple
« Reply #31 on: April 03, 2008, 02:34:00 pm »
My sister-in-law got an iTouch for Christmas and she loves it.  It's easy enough that my five year old niece can surf the web and play games on it. 

I have an ipod because Pedro loves his.  I use mine occasionally -- I used it a lot when I first got it because I had an hour-long (each way) commute once a week.  I mostly listen to audiobooks.  But I've had it for over a year and I don't really know how to work it.  I just never sat down and played with it.  I only recently figured out how to actually put music on it.  Usually I just make Pedro do it.  This is exacerbated by the fact that all my music got off-loaded onto an external hard drive, so now my iTunes has all these songs but none of them actually work. 

I was going to say a bunch of stuff about functionality and market forces and niche markets and how most people don't use half the features that they paid extra for on technology gadgets...but you guys have pretty much covered that already, so: ditto everyone. 

Also, my mom calls everything by Apple "that iThing" and refers to digital music players as "mp thingies." 
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Re: I hate Apple
« Reply #32 on: April 03, 2008, 02:57:54 pm »
On more sober reflection I find I must amend my rant.  Having never used or owned a Mac or any other Apple product other than the various iPodia above-described, in all fairness I must limit my venom to the aforesaid diminutive media players.
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Re: I hate Apple
« Reply #33 on: April 03, 2008, 04:08:26 pm »
Would this be a bad time to mention I just bought a new iMac to replace my aging (but still functional!) PowerBook? I decided to go the desktop route since I never really take this notebook anywhere and looking down at the screen is beginning to destroy my neck. Yes, I know they sell stands for that but still.
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Re: I hate Apple
« Reply #34 on: April 03, 2008, 04:36:51 pm »
Quote from: AugustWest on April 03, 2008, 02:53:19 am
What?  How can you say that?  Next you'll be telling me that Celine Dion and Britney Spears aren't the worlds' greatest musicians!

I have an otherwise-intelligent friend who says more or less this exact thing.  "If it wasn't great music, it wouldn't be in the Top 40."

God, it's frustrating.  I gave up talking about music with him years ago.
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Re: I hate Apple
« Reply #35 on: April 03, 2008, 04:53:38 pm »
My ladyfriend is tech savvy.  Just as much as I am.

In fact, she got hired for the job that I left just recently.

I have no problems with my ipod, her's frustrates her to death.  This spans several iPods.  I think there's something about the workflow that messes with people.   
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Re: I hate Apple
« Reply #36 on: April 03, 2008, 05:24:05 pm »
Man, I really need to learn computer stuff. I really really want to take a programming class here, because I loved it and was good at it when I took classes in high school, but apparently the computer science classes here (or at least the early ones) are all horrible.
Next semester there's a Computational Linguistics class where the professor is going to teach some programming language (I think he likes Perl?) and then teach how to use it to analyze language. Which is cool, but... boring sounding? I feel like the only person in it will be my friend Karl.
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Re: I hate Apple
« Reply #37 on: April 03, 2008, 06:08:19 pm »
Quote from: Arachno-capitalist on April 02, 2008, 04:29:21 am
The odds that there are that many faulty ipods and that you happen to get so many of them that times in a row is literally unbelievable.

Well, I call bullshit on that.  I received an 80GB iPod for my birthday last year, and in short order it developed the clicking sound that comes with the imminent failure of the internal hard drive. 

So I brought it back.  They gave me a new one.  Clicking sound.

I brought that one back...to a different Apple Store.  They took a new iPod right out of the box and gave it to me.

Clicking sound. 

This happened TWO MORE TIMES. 

It took me five months to get a usable iPod. 

iPods are poorly constructed toys.  Unfortunately, everyone else's toys are worse. 

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Re: I hate Apple
« Reply #38 on: April 03, 2008, 07:39:59 pm »
I mean, also relevant is the fact that an 80 gig harddrive smaller than a billfold is INSANE. That is the bleeding fuck*ng edge.
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Re: I hate Apple
« Reply #39 on: April 03, 2008, 07:50:14 pm »
Welcome to North Carolina, where the men carry billfolds and the women carry pocketbooks. 

It was weird for me, too. 
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Re: I hate Apple
« Reply #40 on: April 03, 2008, 08:04:54 pm »
the reason I said billfold is that... for some reason at first I wanted to say "a folded 1 dollar bill," and then I realized that that is not at all the size it is.
I normally say wallet, don't think I am crazy.


Also, JL, people in NC say Pocketbook? I always associated that with my dad's crazy bostonian relatives.
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Re: I hate Apple
« Reply #41 on: April 03, 2008, 08:08:58 pm »
is there a place where people dont say pocketbook? Ive always said pocketbook... i guess the alternative is purse? handbag? Billfold however... is a word that crazy people use. Crazy people like the Virginia state trooper who told me to get out my Billfold. "My what?" "Your billfold! Get out your billfold!" "What the... Whats a..." "BILLFOLD! BILLFOLD! DONT TELL ME YOU DONT KNOW WHAT A GOD DAMN BILLFOLD IS!" " Oh... you mean a wallet? Ive got a wallet. I have a wallet here."
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Re: I hate Apple
« Reply #42 on: April 03, 2008, 08:21:42 pm »
Apparently back in the day a wallet didn't fold over and looked sort of like a checkbook? As for purse vs. pocketbook vs. handbag I have no ideas.

Clutches are fuck*ng ridiculous, though.
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Re: I hate Apple
« Reply #43 on: April 03, 2008, 08:38:06 pm »
Quote from: CortJstr on April 03, 2008, 08:21:42 pm
Clutches are fuck*ng ridiculous, though.
Prone to being dropped, one would think.

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Re: I hate Apple
« Reply #44 on: April 03, 2008, 11:14:45 pm »
Quote from: theinevitable on April 03, 2008, 05:24:05 pm
Next semester there's a Computational Linguistics class where the professor is going to teach some programming language (I think he likes Perl?) and then teach how to use it to analyze language. Which is cool, but... boring sounding? I feel like the only person in it will be my friend Karl.

I'm like two pages too late on this but... FUCK computational linquistics.
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