[lit-ideas] Re: Could an academic discipline do this?/Sidebar and abuse of Lit-Id process probably


> To my mind Apple has been innovative in three ways:
> 
> Design
> Simplicity
> Beauty

These seem mainly aspects of design btw, but my problem is more personal...
 
> If you look at the iPod as an example you can see all three.  It is  
> designed for simplicity and that's the main reason it is still on top  
> of the portable music player market.  They weren't the first but they  
> created an interface that is simple and elegant.  Like many other  
> Apple products it doesn't do a myriad of things but what it sets out  
> to do as its main purpose it does very well.  

Was gifted a 2nd generation iPod shuffle this winter solstice by someone who
has the iPod in some superior form and who has charged it without hitch from
their and other computers. Tried to charge it from the laptop speaking to you
now. Upshot - could play downloads via iPod using the computer, ie. using
iPod as sort of USB, but could not play iPod independent of computer; and
signals were that it was not charging. Got replacement today.

Tonight - same story. 

One guess is that this laptop, which does not have hi-powered USB terminals,
is therefore incapable of charging up that beautiful, simple,
so-frustrating-its-head-should-be-kicked-in etc. thingie.

Is this remedial by some kind of reworking/reconfiguring of my computer,
granny, local bus-stop, first passer-by etc.?

Or must I, for example, purchase something to bring my USB sockets to 2.0
level or buy a wall adaptor for it?

Andreas may not know exactly what Swiss bank and where and how much, but I
bet he and others know this.

Tired enough by the whole thing to express this thought: much as I agree that
Benazir did not deserve assassination, I am quite out of sympathy - be they
man or woman - with those complicit with and not resistant to corruption; and
suggest the following (debateable) thesis:"In general the less corrupt the
system the less there is a threat of political violence from within the
system". Also a flip-side: "In general the more corrupt the system the more
it is both sustained by force/and the threat of it by the status quo; and the
more the status quo is likely to face force/the threat of it."

This is perhaps 'consensus-based' political theory writ large.

In the meantime any answers that will save a trek and expenditure tomorrow,
will receive their reward in due course. I am sure.

Donal


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