Re: [CGUYS] Table top stand alone MP3 player?

2007-10-20 Thread mike
Sony-NW-S205F http://mobilnik.ua/mp3/img/Sony-NW-S205F.gif Paid 58 bux at circuit city...one of those one day sale things. Make no doubt, the software from sony is beyond horrible...well that's not true, when I had a sony minidisc that software was beyond horrible, sony has moved up to just horrib

Re: [CGUYS] Table top stand alone MP3 player?

2007-10-20 Thread Tom Piwowar
Someone just posted to macintouch.com a story about buying an iPod clone that he said was almost indistinguishable from a real iPod. It was almost half the price. It does not work with iTunes, but he does not care about that. Alas he did not provide any information to locate the product. Perhap

[CGUYS] Expert Calls Apple's iPhone 'Perfect Spying Device'

2007-10-20 Thread Jeff Wright
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nf/20071017/bs_nf/56074 " Moore posted to the site an exploit that would allow a hacker to insert malicious code onto someone's iPhone to access the device's data. Because the flawed TIFF library is used by the iPhone's Web browser, e-mail program, and iTunes software -- an

Re: [CGUYS] Table top stand alone MP3 player?

2007-10-20 Thread Tom Piwowar
>I got a non ipod because I needed something water resistant. And something >smaller then a nano but still with a screen. And something considerably >cheaper. And something with greater battery life. It is okay if you tell us the make and model. ***

Re: [CGUYS] BTX vs ATX [Was: Mac Market Share Grows]

2007-10-20 Thread Jeff Wright
All Dells are BTX. Does being #2 in PC sales, exponentially greater than all Mac sales, count? > -Original Message- > Will PC makers contiune to cling to a 10-year-old ATX MoBo design? I > will > place my bet on lack of innovation. That seems to be endemic in Windows > land. ***

Re: [CGUYS] Table top stand alone MP3 player?

2007-10-20 Thread Jeff Wright
Mike--Please note that all of those are all "inferior" design specs. IOW, not invented in Cupertino. > -Original Message- > I got a non ipod because I needed something water resistant. And > something > smaller then a nano but still with a screen. And something > considerably > cheaper.

Re: [CGUYS] The Worst Thing about Macs

2007-10-20 Thread Jeff Wright
> >http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,2193639,00.asp > > This is what is known as an "ad hominem" attack. Instead of focusing on > the merits, he attacks the people who own Macs. You must have missed the title of the article: "The Worst Thing About Macs." Hint: It was also the subject li

Re: [CGUYS] Security Fraud [Was: Mac Market Share Grows]

2007-10-20 Thread mike
Sales were in the area of 20 million in the first month, to quibble, that is twice the total sales all year of mac os x 2005 ending. That's sales to further quibble, as in on the computer, in someones house. Your argument that the numbers don't count because vista only sold 20 million copies in

Re: [CGUYS] Table top stand alone MP3 player?

2007-10-20 Thread mike
I got a non ipod because I needed something water resistant. And something smaller then a nano but still with a screen. And something considerably cheaper. And something with greater battery life. Mike On 10/20/07, Tom Piwowar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>>I don't have an iPod and don't pa

Re: [CGUYS] Table top stand alone MP3 player?

2007-10-20 Thread Tom Piwowar
>>>I don't have an iPod and don't particularly want one. >> So sad. ;( > >Why is that? Well there could be different motivations so the "why" part is not so easy to analyze. Hovever I do think that the general term "sad" is an accurate umbrella for all of them. 1) To hate Apple so much that one

Re: [CGUYS] Security Fraud [Was: Mac Market Share Grows]

2007-10-20 Thread Tom Piwowar
>You might want to go to the site to *see* what i'm talking about before you >write. The report on Secunia covers the first 8 months of 2007... >Vista was released at the end of January. >> Reread Mike's post. Read the last sentence most carefully. Then ask >> yourself, during what part of "the s