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Excellent result Scott, good going! Is that cheque for 100 Euros though?... bit stingy of them!!

But she was Kochanski!

I really didn't like the last (2?) series' when the wrong Kochanski came back and they used annoying computer effects. The real series 1-6 was where it was at. Not fussed about the new programs but am tempted by that DVD set...

For the Red Dwarf lovers out there may I point your attention to this. Bargainous.

Quite a good quote from Sébastien Bourdais:

Having just watched the Japanese GP can I just say: Aaaaaarrrgggghhhhh!!!! I HATE the FIA!

That's the whole point of an OS though isn't it?!

Make fun of PC users and imagine just how cool the new range will be when they're released TOMORROW!![/sarcasm]

£70?! Pah- in my day to go rear disc on a mod you had to pay £175 for a megamo hub... which then smashed into pieces after about a year. Happy days. Or not.

Well I thought you might get offended if I called you a boy. Or the police would be knocking on my door later...

Yup, you got me- I enjoy being touched by young men :$. With silly floppy hair

That was the case when they first started doing it but for the past couple of years everything under the sun (usually random cheap rubbish from China) has come in white plastic feeding off the apple image, making it seem cheap and tacky now. Sounds like they're about to change that though with the eagerly anticipated launch on Tuesday... Which I guess is another thing that differentiates apple users with everyone else... apple lovers are the only people I know who know and get excited about new product launches weeks in advance (edit: I guess that's not the case- PS3 launch and anything starwars related gets similar reactions I guess but see the final sentence). I didn't know, didn't and still don't care that the new macs are out on Tuesday as I don't care when Dell release their new range of PC's. I guess that's just down to geekiness (in the nicest possible way!) Pretty sure that doesn't make sense. Or maybe it's just over my head.

Umm... that was my point in the first case. Dave (Hugh) confused me though by questioning what I was questioning...

Don't think I know what you're getting at... CNCing those completely plain dropouts from billet seems like a silly idea to me. That was all.

Not a bad thing... And just to reiterate Ashley, you worry me .

That's exactly it, though even if I don't want to transfer my music somewhere else, why does it rename anything at all in the first place? Why can't I just drag a folder full of mp3's onto the ipod without using annoying apple software? That is illogical and backward. See I just find that gimmicky and sad... Think this has been flogged to death a bit now, thanks to Extreme_Biker0 and Crispoats who seemed to put what I was trying to get at in far fewer posts! At the end of the day all I can see is that apple are deliberately losing themselves 90% of the computing market by limiting what their mac users can do. If they were to make an OS which had none of its current built in limitations or compatibility issues and started selling pc's which (in theory if what all you lovers are saying is true) would be faster, easier to use etc. then they might be able to command a far bigger share of the market instead of limiting themselves as it seems they love doing... or is that just too logical?!

Nowt to do with peripherals, I'm talking software. You look for any kind of downloadable software online and it's pretty much all set up for PC. Most of the more popular stuff is probably available for mac but do apple want to make it difficult for programmers by forcing them to write two completely different programs just for a few people who use macs? Not sure if this is still the case but in a world where 99% of people use Word, although Word is available for macs the file's aren't (or didn't used to be) compatible. Genius. Again, I don't know the ins and outs but it's awkward for the sake of awkward from my point of view. And I have used a mac for a week when I ran a wind tunnel test back in 3rd year of my undergrad. Spent the week swearing at the non intuitive way it did things (albeit being used to a PC) and the fact the bloody thing only had one mouse button. Hated it then and in my mind apple haven't made any steps forward to improve things.

At least I'm not the only one that thinks the whole thing totally moronic .

All my music is in Artist Folder > Album Folder > and almost all of it then has the correct song name etc. So on the hard drive it's fine but to put it on my ipod I have to import it into itunes (which fannies round converting things and god knows what) and then if you look on the ipod itself, itunes has usefully renamed every single mp3 as 3RF65HHJ.mp3 or whatever it turns it into which is about as useful as a chocolate hairdryer.

Ok, maybe if you're used to them they're user friendly, but you can't argue that due to the way the company works they are inherently not versatile or compatible? I'm a 'Research Engineer' (postgrad on better money) developing the vehicle aerodynamics for a major rally team...

And clutter up your computer with an essentially unnecessary additional OS and related files which, if you'd just had a PC like 90% of the world you wouldn't have had to! I still don't see why don't they just make white plastic PC's (running their OS if needs be) but which are user friendly, versatile and compatible with what is virtually a world standard? Edit: Yes I do have a deep down hatred for all things mac but I would really like to understand their logic behind making their systems (deliberately) as incompatible as possible with what the majority of the world use... Please explain!!

*Nods vaguely* But they're just painting themselves into a corner making it more difficult for users to do anything. Edit: and on the legal front: "Apple claimed the "look and feel" of the Macintosh operating system, taken as a whole, was protected by copyright" Surely that's just stupid? Any kind of GUI will be copied and made a skin for another 100 programs the week after it's released. They've been playing with their one button mouses for too long if you ask me .

That's the other thing with apple- everyone slates Microsoft for being evil but in my mind apple are 10 times worse by making it virtually impossible to use anything but their own hardware/software/formats/white plastic things...

Because they're 'cool'. I've yet to see someone with an iphone who hasn't got it out on show so everyone can see they've got an iphone... Big. Wow.

In itunes I presume? But to get music into itunes it plays silly buggers with the file names and type and whatever else. MP4 isn't a 'normal' video format though is it? The world revolves around mpeg... and yup divx is a no no. However, if you get any other brand of mp3 player *goes to amazon to copy the first list he finds* can deal with "AAC (.M4A) support along with MP3, WMA, WAVE and Audible, WMV and DivX/XviD support (320x240)" and I'm guessing you simply drag them from a folder on your hard drive to a folder on the device. Now someone please tell me why the hell apple have to be such awkward bastards?