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By: manchicken

manchicken — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 12:38:30 +0000

Sympy: Not all countries restrict racists. Even while it’s offensive and ignorant, some countries protect the rights of all of their citizens… even the toothless idiot and nixternal variety.

By: troll

troll — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 12:23:30 +0000

Nixternal, good players such as Banshee will automatically convert your media for your portable players.. It’s not task of the handheld device really to support many formats, better to keep it as simple as cheap as possible and to move that functionality to the other end anyways.

By: Sympy

Sympy — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 04:41:49 +0000

Ah yes, the good old ‘n’ beaten-up “free speech” argument. Please don’t be naive.

If by “free speech” you mean “saying anything regardless of how disrespectful it is”, then of course the code of conduct rids you of it. Just like the law rids racists of it. You can’t be disrespectful without expressing your disrespect, so if the code restricts disrespect then it obviously restricts what you can or cannot say. By definition.

And no, I wasn’t offended by your comments. In fact, I found your post quite funny as I hate the hype around the iPhone myself. I wouldn’t say a thing and perhaps might’ve even complimented you for it if your blog was isolated. However it’s not. It’s part of a blog aggregator and as such is subjected to its rules.

Like I said before, all of your points, with which I mostly agree, could be perfectly expressed without the need of aggressive words.

By: nixternal

nixternal — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 23:40:27 +0000

@john – glad to give ya a smile

OH NOES! Code of Conduct police!!! One thing the code of conduct doesn’t do is rid me of my right to free speech, so sorry if you were offended by my comments.

@Mackenzie – ya, a quick little lesson helped the youngster at the register.

@Troll – With my old iPoop, iTunes didn’t convert my ogg stuff for me, so that is when I learned of RockBox (a couple of years ago). I put RockBox on it and it fixed my ogg problem. Haven’t messed with iTunes since then so I am sure that probably all changed.

By: johnc4510

johnc4510 — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 22:14:33 +0000

No matter what the other commenters say, I laughed my a** off this morning when I read in the paper about all the problems with the iPoop launch. Your blog gave me the second chuckle of the day, and the comments a third. Thanks for the giggles hee hee.

By: troll

troll — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 17:27:16 +0000

Nixternal btw, if you have all your music as OGGs it doesn’t matter. The media player software can encode your music automatically into aac/mp3 for putting into the iPhone… Your ears really can’t hear the difference and that’s what matters.