iPods Freakin' Rock!!!

I just got an iPod nano, the second generation one. It is awesome and has all kind of cool features like a super bright screen, long-life battery, and more. That sounded kind of like an ad, so I'm going to say some things that I don't like about the ipod nano. First off, the thing that I noticed was that the memory on the device, while technically 4 gigs (i bought it at walmart, and that was the $200 bargain-price model), actually only lets you access 3.68 gigs. That 320 megabytes of space apparently is sort of ROM for the ipod itself. The next thing that I didn't like was that my screen got kind of scuffed right off the bat.
However, the whole space thing, I haven't even filled half of the space in it, so that doesn't matter. As for the screen ,when it is on, the small (tiny, nano, even) scuffs are not visible.
All in all, this is a really great device. And I'm tired of typing.

Women shouldn't wear ties

Note: This was taken from a previous post on my earlier blog.

Call me what you will, I don't believe that women should wear ties. There are just some things that should be kept to a certain gender. If you were going down the street, and you saw a man in a dress, even in this day and age, it still wouldn't look right. If you were to see a woman pull a cigar out of her wallet and light it up, you wouldn't like it (or at least I wouldn't, and you should think like me). The only exception to this is at some sort of costume party, where it is in pure jest. I mean, come on, even the name of the knot (the Windsor Knot) has a manly regality to it. In fact, the other day, I saw a woman in a tie and said to myself "this is what society has gone to. Hell. Wait, why am I talking to myself?" but I digress. The main point is, whatever point a woman is trying to get across, she can do it without wearing a tie. And if she can't, it's probably not worth getting across. Either that, or she it sick in the head, like that guy in the dress.

^DRM is crap^

Note:this was taken from a previous post on my earlier blog.

The other day I went to WalMart and bought a Music Gift Card. I went home and redeemed it, and downloaded the songs that I wanted. Now here comes the fun part. When I opened the songs, which were in WMA format, they executed something in Windows Media Player that made them retrieve Licenses off of the WalMart site. All went well when I found that I could only, among other things, burn them to CDs a set number of times. This was tolerable, knowing that I could rip them license-free from the CD that I was about to burn. The thing that REALLY pissed me off was that the last song wouldn't give me the license and therefore wouldn't play. DRM, or Digital Rights Management, is to blame. Basically, I believe,that if I am paying good money to them, without limits on how they spend the money, I should get good music from them (the download site, artist's site, etc.) without restrictions. The argument that DRM will stop piracy is wrong. There is no technology, wether in hardware or software, that someone hasn't hacked or broken into. This said, why should DRM be any different? Also, I've noticed, is when a file sharing network (P2P) gets killed by the large corporations and Hollywood, even more pop up. E.G. Napster, then Kazaa, now limewire, morpheus, and others. The process will continue, regardless of how many rights are stolen from us, the consumer.
Drop me a line to tell me what you think.