In article
<63dfe2c8-0e6b-45a2-a43e-7a369e48d26b@k37g2000hsf.googlegroups.com>,
"nessuno@wigner.berkeley.edu" wrote:
>
> It's unclear why the titan even has to advertise; its highly
> successful Windows Vista and Zune media player products have dominated
> the landscape for ... I'm sorry. I just can't type anymore. I'm
> laughing too hard.
>

I guess with the Zune they aren't satisfied with merely dominating all
those Linux "iPod Killers" that people have raved about here, and want
to actually try to make headway against Apple.

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--Tim Smith

Timmy wrote:

>all those Linux "iPod Killers" that people have raved about here,

Will you, finally, prove that "people have raved about" "iPod Killers"
in here, Timmy twit?

In article ,
chrisv wrote:
>
> >all those Linux "iPod Killers" that people have raved about here,
>
> Will you, finally, prove that "people have raved about" "iPod Killers"

Links were posted a while back (as you know, of course).



--
--Tim Smith

Timmy wrote:

> chrisv wrote:
>>
>> >all those Linux "iPod Killers" that people have raved about here,
>>
>> Will you, finally, prove that "people have raved about" "iPod Killers"
>
>Links were posted a while back

It appears that your answer is "no".

>(as you know, of course).

It appears that your mind-reading skills are right up-there with your
counting and logic skills, Timmy. Not so good, in other words.

In article <92cta4hobld41273ms0ubnabi4hb37o0go@4ax.com>,
chrisv wrote:
> >
> >Links were posted a while back
>
> It appears that your answer is "no".
>
> >(as you know, of course).
>
> It appears that your mind-reading skills are right up-there with your

Several links were posted, a mere three months ago, in a thread you were
participating in, in direct response to a request for them from you.
Feel free now to stop pretending you didn't see them, and go back and
answer the several questions you've been running from in this thread.

--
--Tim Smith

On Aug 22, 11:42*am, Tim Smith
wrote:
> In article <92cta4hobld41273ms0ubnabi4hb37o...@4ax.com>,
>
> *chrisv wrote:
>
> > >Links were posted a while back
>
> > It appears that your answer is "no".
>
> > >(as you know, of course).
>
> > It appears that your mind-reading skills are right up-there with your
>
> Several links were posted, a mere three months ago, in a thread you were
> participating in, in direct response to a request for them from you. *
> Feel free now to stop pretending you didn't see them, and go back and
> answer the several questions you've been running from in this thread.
>
> --
> --Tim Smith

I don't remember such links, but I don't read everything. It would
make a difference whether the "iPod killer" stories were by a cola
regular, and who, or whether it was a blog or an article saying that.
I myself never did. Good luck, by the way, to Zune in making headway
against Apple. Looks to me like Apple is running circles around
Microsoft right now.

Timmy wrote:

> chrisv wrote:
>> >
>> >Links were posted a while back
>>
>> It appears that your answer is "no".
>>
>> >(as you know, of course).
>>
>> It appears that your mind-reading skills are right up-there with your
>
>Several links were posted, a mere three months ago,

LOL "mere"

>in a thread you were
>participating in, in direct response to a request for them from you.

Sure, Timmy. I'd ask you to prove this, but you'd likely just evade,
as usual...

In any case, I do not recall seeing *anyone* prove the allegations
regarding "Linux iPod killers".

>Feel free now to stop pretending you didn't see them,

Wouldn't I have to start, before I stop, Timmy?

>and go back and
>answer the several questions you've been running from in this thread.

What questions have I been running-from, Timmy? Are you drunk?

On Fri, 22 Aug 2008 11:42:56 -0700, Tim Smith wrote:

> In article <92cta4hobld41273ms0ubnabi4hb37o0go@4ax.com>,
> chrisv wrote:
>>>
>>>Links were posted a while back
>>
>> It appears that your answer is "no".
>>
>>>(as you know, of course).
>>
>> It appears that your mind-reading skills are right up-there with your
>
> Several links were posted, a mere three months ago, in a thread you were
> participating in, in direct response to a request for them from you.
> Feel free now to stop pretending you didn't see them, and go back and
> answer the several questions you've been running from in this thread.

Shall I put chrisv out of his misery or do you want to see him dance at the
end of the rope a little longer?

Of course, you should really do the honors Tim!

--
Moshe Goldfarb
Collector of soaps from around the globe.
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On Fri, 22 Aug 2008 11:56:48 -0700 (PDT), nessuno@wigner.berkeley.edu
wrote:

> On Aug 22, 11:42*am, Tim Smith
> wrote:
>> In article <92cta4hobld41273ms0ubnabi4hb37o...@4ax.com>,
>>
>> *chrisv wrote:
>>
>>> >Links were posted a while back
>>
>>> It appears that your answer is "no".
>>
>>> >(as you know, of course).
>>
>>> It appears that your mind-reading skills are right up-there with your
>>
>> Several links were posted, a mere three months ago, in a thread you were
>> participating in, in direct response to a request for them from you. *
>> Feel free now to stop pretending you didn't see them, and go back and
>> answer the several questions you've been running from in this thread.
>>
>> --
>> --Tim Smith
>
> I don't remember such links, but I don't read everything. It would
> make a difference whether the "iPod killer" stories were by a cola
> regular, and who, or whether it was a blog or an article saying that.
> I myself never did. Good luck, by the way, to Zune in making headway
> against Apple. Looks to me like Apple is running circles around
> Microsoft right now.

Notice how the goal posts just grew legs....

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On 2008-08-22, nessuno@wigner.berkeley.edu wrote:
> On Aug 22, 11:42*am, Tim Smith
> wrote:
>> In article <92cta4hobld41273ms0ubnabi4hb37o...@4ax.com>,
>>
>> *chrisv wrote:
>>
>> > >Links were posted a while back
>>
>> > It appears that your answer is "no".
>>
>> > >(as you know, of course).
>>
>> > It appears that your mind-reading skills are right up-there with your
>>
>> Several links were posted, a mere three months ago, in a thread you were
>> participating in, in direct response to a request for them from you. *
>> Feel free now to stop pretending you didn't see them, and go back and
>> answer the several questions you've been running from in this thread.
>>
>> --
>> --Tim Smith
>
> I don't remember such links, but I don't read everything. It would
> make a difference whether the "iPod killer" stories were by a cola
> regular, and who, or whether it was a blog or an article saying that.
> I myself never did. Good luck, by the way, to Zune in making headway
> against Apple. Looks to me like Apple is running circles around
> Microsoft right now.

Given that I just very recently observed that someone had to resort
to running iTunes in Vista just to avoid making coasters when creating
very simple/straightforward CD's, I wouldn't hold my breath here.


If anything is going to kill ipods it's going to be mp3 players
that use generic interfaces to load content off of Amazon and similar
places. Some people have gotten tired of the idea of "buy our device
and use our app to deal with it". Either they're tired of doing this
for themselves or others.

This is especially true for a small device like the shuffle where
there probably just isn't that much metadata to worry about.

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In article
<50c27c86-e9a4-4b41-9aee-0f1bf4398a4a@f63g2000hsf.googlegroups.com>,
"nessuno@wigner.berkeley.edu" wrote:
> I don't remember such links, but I don't read everything. It would
> make a difference whether the "iPod killer" stories were by a cola
> regular, and who, or whether it was a blog or an article saying that.

Is Schestowitz regular enough for you (his commentary, not quotes from
articles he links to)?


--
--Tim Smith

On 2008-08-22, Tim Smith wrote:
> In article
><50c27c86-e9a4-4b41-9aee-0f1bf4398a4a@f63g2000hsf.googlegroups.com>,
> "nessuno@wigner.berkeley.edu" wrote:
>> I don't remember such links, but I don't read everything. It would
>> make a difference whether the "iPod killer" stories were by a cola
>> regular, and who, or whether it was a blog or an article saying that.
>
> Is Schestowitz regular enough for you (his commentary, not quotes from
> articles he links to)?

You mean the guy that posts large volumes of material that's
considerately well marked? He could be saying all sorts of weird
things and many of us wouldn't notice. You don't even need a
killfile.

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On Fri, 22 Aug 2008 15:31:30 -0500, JEDIDIAH wrote:

> On 2008-08-22, Tim Smith wrote:
>> In article
>><50c27c86-e9a4-4b41-9aee-0f1bf4398a4a@f63g2000hsf.googlegroups.com>,
>> "nessuno@wigner.berkeley.edu" wrote:
>>> I don't remember such links, but I don't read everything. It would
>>> make a difference whether the "iPod killer" stories were by a cola
>>> regular, and who, or whether it was a blog or an article saying that.
>>
>> Is Schestowitz regular enough for you (his commentary, not quotes from
>> articles he links to)?
>
> You mean the guy that posts large volumes of material that's
> considerately well marked? He could be saying all sorts of weird
> things and many of us wouldn't notice. You don't even need a
> killfile.

That doesn't make it right.....

Try posting all that off topic crap in a moderated group and you will be
sent packing....

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* Moshe Goldfarb. peremptorily fired off this memo:

> Try posting all that off topic crap in a moderated group and you will be
> sent packing....

So what? It's unmoderated here. In fact, it is usually quite
immoderate.

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* chrisv peremptorily fired off this memo:

> In any case, I do not recall seeing *anyone* prove the allegations
> regarding "Linux iPod killers".

Neither have I.

It's not a topic that interests me much.

> What questions have I been running-from, Timmy? Are you drunk?

Hmmmm, that reminds me, it's about time for a USL soccer game on FSC.

Time to get off this computer. Between beating on libtool, automake,
and debian packing issues and watching Moshe's one-for-one post
neutralization on Roy, I'm bushed!

--
I am more bored than you could ever possibly be. Go back to work.

On Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:42:58 -0400, Linonut wrote:

> * Moshe Goldfarb. peremptorily fired off this memo:
>
>> Try posting all that off topic crap in a moderated group and you will be
>> sent packing....
>
> So what? It's unmoderated here. In fact, it is usually quite
> immoderate.

Doesn't matter.

Posting [ot] is just a copout and you Linux advocates go for the bait.

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* Moshe Goldfarb. peremptorily fired off this memo:

> On Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:42:58 -0400, Linonut wrote:
>
>> * Moshe Goldfarb. peremptorily fired off this memo:
>>
>>> Try posting all that off topic crap in a moderated group and you will be
>>> sent packing....
>>
>> So what? It's unmoderated here. In fact, it is usually quite
>> immoderate.
>
> Doesn't matter.

Huh?

I don't get it. This group is unmoderated, yet you try to compare it to
a moderated group?

!No comprendo!

> Posting [ot] is just a copout and you Linux advocates go for the bait.

You're idiotic on this one.

What "bait"?

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programming task.

On Sat, 23 Aug 2008 11:35:57 -0400, Linonut wrote:

> * Moshe Goldfarb. peremptorily fired off this memo:
>
>> On Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:42:58 -0400, Linonut wrote:
>>
>>> * Moshe Goldfarb. peremptorily fired off this memo:
>>>
>>>> Try posting all that off topic crap in a moderated group and you will be
>>>> sent packing....
>>>
>>> So what? It's unmoderated here. In fact, it is usually quite
>>> immoderate.
>>
>> Doesn't matter.
>
> Huh?
>
> I don't get it. This group is unmoderated, yet you try to compare it to
> a moderated group?
>
> !No comprendo!
>
>> Posting [ot] is just a copout and you Linux advocates go for the bait.
>
> You're idiotic on this one.
>
> What "bait"?

What I am saying is that you COLA people are being taken for a ride and
that Schestowitz putting [OT] in front of his posts doesn't justify the
fact that they are off topic.

By his reasoning I could post about sailboats all day long and put [OT] in
front of the subject.

In a moderated group he would be kicked out on his ass yet here you accept
this kind of crap.


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Collector of soaps from around the globe.
Please visit The Hall of Linux Idiots:
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* Moshe Goldfarb. peremptorily fired off this memo:

> On Sat, 23 Aug 2008 11:35:57 -0400, Linonut wrote:
>
> What I am saying is that you COLA people are being taken for a ride and
> that Schestowitz putting [OT] in front of his posts doesn't justify the
> fact that they are off topic.

You're making me laugh.

"Taken for a ride"?

Get real.

> In a moderated group he would be kicked out on his ass yet here you accept
> this kind of crap.

We have no choice. We have to put up with posts from you, DFS, the
Clogster, the Dizum Dip****, the Forte ****er (haven't seen him lately),
the nym-forgers, Hadron's typical contentless insult posts, not to
mention the Snit circus and Psyc Geek TAB's ninnering.

Acceptance has no concept here in COLA.

You're setting up a scenario that cannot exist.

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should have done. Calculate that one rebellion in 13 states in the course
of 11 years, is but one for each state in a century and a half. No country
should be so long without one.
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