Quote: Originally Posted by spacefreak I was just having some fun. I knew everything was fine. That's called lying.

I have not seen anyone mention this anywhere (and I was on a plane when the announcement was made, so I don't know if Steve mentioned this), but what is the speculation of having a…

Two words. FAT CHANCE. Steve wants you to but new. Buisness.

Nano probably doesn't have the power to decode the video.

I'm sure that "fat chance" is probably the answer, but does anyone have any hard info one way or the other? I also thought about the processor speed of the nano as well, but I hav…

Fat chance? Try NO EFFING WAY.

haha i like youre thinking gralem. has anyone actually been able to extract and play around with the UI of the ipod and change anything?

Apple's strategy with the iPod: 1. Make a device, let it do some things. 2. Introduce a newer device 9-12 months later with new features. Refuse to backport them. While true, th…

I don't know if "refusing to backport" some features is relevant in all cases. There's a limited amount of firmware storage in devices like these and there are constraints to fit …

My FAT CHANCE was from the hip a bit. Maybe. Just feeling a it bit. Thing is Apple has no real track record of retro fitting new features to 'old' hardware. Why should it? Well …

I remember reading an article after the 4g iPods came out that said something like, "the most interesting features of this new iPod are the ones that no one is talking about, like …

Let's not forget that Apple retro-fit AAC/Fairplay decoding into the ipod software when Apple introduced the music store. Obviously they wanted to make the store available to the w…

Quote: Originally Posted by michaelb I don't know if "refusing to backport" some features is relevant in all cases. There's a limited amount of firmware storage in devices like…

Easy, nano doesnt have a h.264/MP4 decoder = No video.

Quote: Originally Posted by Thain Esh Kelch Easy, nano doesnt have a h.264/MP4 decoder = No video. Hey my name is Thain Esh Kelch and I don't know what I'm talking about, so…

Well i was at the store ( the friggin 100th store ), and i finally find an ipod.. used unfortunately but w/e, it looks fine, and seems to work fine (worst case, i return it for a n…

My windows to Mac transformation is complete. I will never go back. However, I am starting to become interested in Terminal. It reminds me of when I used to use a Commodore 64, ma…

Quote: Originally Posted by larrinski My windows to Mac transformation is complete. I will never go back. However, I am starting to become interested in Terminal. It reminds me…

Sorry, I feel kinda stupid here... this IS the Unix forum!

MacOS X has a full unix underpinning. Legally, neither OS X, Darwin nor Linux are unix (because it is a trademark), so sometimes they are called *nix. With OS X, you don't need a…

Quote: Originally Posted by larrinski My windows to Mac transformation is complete. I will never go back. However, I am starting to become interested in Terminal. It reminds me…

Quote: andreadeca: Sorry, I feel kinda stupid here... this IS the Unix forum! Made ME look! Anyway, I built a "crappy PC" with which to learn Linux. I dow…

I am now taking some online unix tutorials & creating/moving files. I do have an external drive, I thought maybe I would try to install linux on there, as long as I can boot fr…

I can think of a couple reasons to go with "linux on a cheap box" 1. you will learn a lot about the guts of the computer. A mac is like a mercedes, you never have to look under th…

Quote: Originally Posted by n0tjcs what are you trying to learn? the majority of the things you'd use linux or a *bsd (freebsd, netbsd, openbsd) for are already available in ma…