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Posted: Sun Nov 13, 2005 12:07 am
by Malcolm
3) I fdisk'd my hard drive. It's becoming a fucking hunt for the Holy goddamned Grail to find the proper USB driver for the damned thing.
I finally found the fuckers. The musical beast lives again.
Posted: Sun Nov 13, 2005 6:59 am
by Vince
Well, perhaps for you personally, but tens of millions of people disagree.
True, but the review writers pool is full of "Apple Polishers". There was a very good article on Slate about the iPods. Pretty much it was saying that for every good product they put out, they put out another substandard piece of crap. The only problem is that the reviews always read the same. "greatest thing ev4r!!!one111eleventy-eleven111".
As for wma, I wasn't a big fan when it first came out, but it's slowly winning me over. Faster encoding and decoding time than mp3's with a smaller file size and higher quality at 128 kbps. I'm not 100% yet, but I'm much more impressed than I was initially.
Posted: Sun Nov 13, 2005 8:53 am
by TheCatt
Well, I could care less what reviewers think. I love the iPods. And it's all cuz of that click-wheel, nothing more.
Posted: Sun Nov 13, 2005 1:47 pm
by Vince
Well, I could care less what reviewers think. I love the iPods. And it's all cuz of that click-wheel, nothing more.
Yeah, my mobiBLU has the same wheel. I do like that.
Posted: Sun Nov 13, 2005 1:56 pm
by TheCatt
Well, I could care less what reviewers think. I love the iPods. And it's all cuz of that click-wheel, nothing more.
Yeah, my mobiBLU has the same wheel. I do like that.
It does?
Posted: Sun Nov 13, 2005 2:10 pm
by Vince
Posted: Sun Nov 13, 2005 4:36 pm
by TheCatt
That doesn't look like the iPod wheel, that just looks like buttons arranged in a circle.
Posted: Sun Nov 13, 2005 4:50 pm
by Vince
That doesn't look like the iPod wheel, that just looks like buttons arranged in a circle.
Well, since I will never own an iPod you may be right. I don't know the difference. I just know that my cube has more features for less money.
Posted: Sun Nov 13, 2005 7:06 pm
by TheCatt
OK, it doesn't have the wheel, try one some time.
Posted: Mon Nov 14, 2005 12:52 am
by Vince
Plenty of Apple polishers at work. I'll play with one tomorrow.
Posted: Mon Nov 14, 2005 10:32 pm
by Vince
Checked out the little click wheel thingie. Yeah, it's kind of neat. If I did anything more than (more or less) linear listening with mine it might be nice.
The only iPod comperable in price to my mobiBLU is the shuffle, and I don't think it has the click wheel since it doesn't appear to have any sort of display (would seem kind of pointless without it). Mine has an FM tuner, digital voice recorder, FM radio recorder, and acts as a removable hard drive.
The shuffle... plays music. I don't even think you can use it as a removable drive.
Here's that Slate article I was talking about.
Posted: Mon Nov 14, 2005 11:17 pm
by TheCatt
the mobiblu is certainly better than the shuffle. The shuffle sucks ass. For the 512MB-1GB range, the mobi is the way to go.
For 4GB+, the iPod.
Posted: Mon Nov 14, 2005 11:36 pm
by Vince
Well yeah, but if I was looking at spending that kind of money I'd throw in an extra $150 and go with this. Better video screen size and video resolution than that latest video thingie iPod has come out with. And the battery-life is about twice as long. Okay it's a lot bulkier than the iPod, but we are talking video here. Too small is just... silly.
Not that the Nano is bad. Actually, in doing the research here (I like to have some idea of what I'm talking about, though it may not always show) I'm starting to like the iPod more and more simply because it's helping drive the stake through the heart of Macintosh. They're spread way, way, way too thin and the Mac department is getting creamed.
Linux has now outpaced Mac for the number of web users. All-in-all I'm back to where I started. The make some good products and they make some crap. This video player of theirs is crap. And all the hype is tunring me off of them more and more.
Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2005 7:55 am
by TheCatt
Well, the video player is more of a test the water than an actual product. It's really just an iPod that happens to play video too.
Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2005 8:17 am
by Leisher
As it turns out, my Dell rep is sending me a free 30GB Dell DJ.
That makes my decision easy.
Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2005 9:01 am
by Vince
Well, the video player is more of a test the water than an actual product. It's really just an iPod that happens to play video too.
This may be the intention, but all the fanfare for a substandard piece of technology is a huge turn-off for me. Though to be just "testing the waters", they sure did revamp iTunes for video really quick.
Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2012 10:40 am
by Paul
Sunday my dryer died.
Monday I took it apart and determined it was a bad motor, so I bought a new dryer.
Monday night I did my first load of laundry.
Tuesday morning I went to do a second load and found my iPod Nano (Gen 5) in the bottom of the washer.
I had left it in my pants. O_o
Oopsie!
Part of the aluminum chassis was peeled back on each end, where it jammed under the agitator.
There was water in the screen.
I poured dry rice into a metal bowl, put the iPod in it, and set the bowl on top of my wood burning stove. The stove has a blower, so it doesn't get hot enough to melt plastic.
Last night I plugged the iPod in... it started charging then syncing! It works!
And none of my music or podcasts were washed out of it!
Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2012 11:03 am
by GORDON
I was getting into your exciting story about your dryer, then it turned out the dryer was not relevant to the story at all.
Tease.
Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2012 11:25 am
by Leisher
I recently got a 64GB white iPhone4. In the first week I had set it near the sink while I was getting ready for work. The sink was going full blast with hot water.
Somehow the phone slid into the sink. I immediately snatched it out, but not before it was submerged. I also dried it off.
For the next few hours, it acted oddly. I turned it off and let it sit overnight.
I've been using it without issues ever since.
Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2012 11:30 am
by GORDON
I didn't think anyone used dedicated mp3 players any more. Seriously.