I caught her on a park bench, making out with a *chaos* demon! Have you ever seen a chaos demon? They're all slime and antlers.

Spike ,'Sleeper'


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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Trudy Booth - Mar 06, 2008 8:05:46 pm PST #3422 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart

Its so nice that it wants to do things automatically for me. Really. But it needs to hush up and let me do what I want.


§ ita § - Mar 06, 2008 8:09:05 pm PST #3423 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Steve Jobs' whole "one button" thing is ludicrous.

I don't think the iPod succeeded despite that sort of thing--I think the simplicity was part of the win.


Consuela - Mar 06, 2008 8:11:25 pm PST #3424 of 10001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

I admit that normal use of my iPod is okay, but there are definitely some problems with the audiobooks. Every once in a while it just loses its place and goes back to the beginning of the enormous file. Argh.


bon bon - Mar 06, 2008 8:14:30 pm PST #3425 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.

I don't think the iPod succeeded despite that sort of thing--I think the simplicity was part of the win.

yes, it's all very cute and sexy, until you use it, and by the time you realize how annoying it is you're locked into iTunes.


megan walker - Mar 06, 2008 8:16:26 pm PST #3426 of 10001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

Its so nice that it wants to do things automatically for me. Really. But it needs to hush up and let me do what I want.

It's like Microsoft Word that way.


Trudy Booth - Mar 06, 2008 8:21:44 pm PST #3427 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart

It's like Microsoft Word that way.

It sure as fuck is.


§ ita § - Mar 06, 2008 8:23:08 pm PST #3428 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

it's all very cute and sexy, until you use it, and by the time you realize how annoying it is you're locked into iTunes.

I have interface problems, but that's because they kept changing the bits I'd gotten down pat. I think that the functionality is pretty well matched with the complexity of thte interface--there's some extra stuff I might want it to do, but there's no way I can think of without adding more buttons, and I don't wanna.

And you're not locked into iTunes. If you want out and have a CD burner you don't even need to download cheating software.

I'm actually curious about iTunes competitors--the ones I've used have been horrible. I was a paid up MMJB user, and really balked at iTunes, but it ended up being much less messy. Various other music software came with phones or PDAs, but still ugly.

Does anyone have a Zune? What does its software look like?


Trudy Booth - Mar 06, 2008 8:40:32 pm PST #3429 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart

and now I'm a fucking dinosaur

I'm trying to redeem a gift card, have accidentally charged my credit card, and see no way to stop this.

fucker


Trudy Booth - Mar 06, 2008 8:43:04 pm PST #3430 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart

well, that's eleven bucks I didn't need to spend. oy.


Trudy Booth - Mar 06, 2008 8:58:15 pm PST #3431 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart

and why the frell flip the order when I move a bunch of songs? huh? albums are in an order for a reason.

well, MY albums are