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XM PCR Control Program for Mac OS X
nsayer writes "I'm a fan of XM Radio. The least expensive XM radio you can get is the XM PCR, which is powered and controlled over a USB connection to a host PC (the audio does not, however, come back across the USB connection. It's just got an analog line-out jack). Unfortunately, the only software they give you is for Windows. But fortunately, it's been reverse engineered, so I was able to write MacXM. At this point, it is very stable and easy to use, and so far as I know it is the only XM radio software that integrates with the iTunes music store (click a button and iTunes pops up with a search for the current song title and artist)."
I bought an Apple computer because of its native support for teledildonics. I bought a USB FUFME and MacOS immediately recognized it and installed drivers instantly! As a gay Catholic priest who often can't be at the altar all the time, you can understand how the ability to have sex with children whilst on the airplane with my Powerbook and wireless internet service is a lifesaver.
I just have a single question, will Apple be releasing a firewire version of the FUFME anytime soon?
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Dear Father Sims of the GNAA
Thank you for your kind letter! Being a former Catholic priest myself, I know exactly what you are talking about! It has been our dream at Apple Computers ever since we began in the 80's to shape the homosexual experience with the ultimate computer.
I can answer your letter by saying that YES we will indeed be making a firewire version of the FUFME. With the additional bandwidth offered by the firewire bus, we will be able to more accurately record and deliver more minute and subtle movements that the USB FUFME simply couldnt support due to lack of bandwidth. You will be able to recognize our firewire FUFME in stores by the fancy holographic logo of a cock entering an Apple.
We are glad to help loyal customers such as yourself. If you ever have any more questions, feel free to drop a line (or connect to my teledildonic FUFME server on fufme://cockman.apple.com).
Hugh G. Cockman
President
Homosexual Liaison Services
Apple Computer, Inc.
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Listen Rummy. I'm gonna say it plain and simple. Where'd you pinch the hooch? Is some blind tiger jerking suds on the side?
The much acclaimed Father Randy "Pudge" O'Day finally makes his appearance on Slashdot!!
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That is, my last troll before I switch proxies!
Muhaha! Had you fooled!
Great Apple Achievments:
1. First computer marketed soley for homosexuals (iMac)
2. First computer that supported homosexual teledildonics
3. Only company that sells homosexual products with a CEO named "Jobs" who gives jobs
4. Largest homosexual clientele in the computer industry
5. The most homosexual software of any computer architechture
thanks to the people who love macs, yet another product that people made for windows, and was saved and ported to the Mac =D
Nice interface! Gotta love it when the FREE software has a better interface.
I'm glad to see Windows-only products made available to Mac users. XM Radio, though, isn't in great financial shape.
Yo shitheads, if I cut off someone's fucking head and immediately attach the fucking major bloodveins to an artificial fucking blood pump system, would the fucking head go on living on its fucking own, separated from the body???
Sign. Frank Booth
Nice to see people leveraging Cocoa and Java together.
This is an interesting application - not that it enables a Mac to use a PC product, nor that it is for the XM radio, though both are note worthy.
.NET) or is this a new phanominon born out of Apple's own developer network?
This application is interesting because it is integrated with another application (iTunes). It is the second such "Integrated Applicaiton" application recently, as Quicken 2004 will integrate with iCal as well.
We have had this in part for a while - click a Mailto: tag and Outlook Express launches - but I am talking about more tight integration.
I am a huge fan of this type of integration. One of my favorite features of Apple's "Mail" is that when iChat is running, and a person who's e-mail address and IM address are in "Address Book" is on-line, there is a little green icon in "Mail" that lets you know so instead of sending them an e-mail, you have the option to click the icon ("iCon") and chat in iChat. Three apps, iChat, Address Book, and Mail, working together to deliver functionality none could deliver otherwise.
So are we seeing a trend? Is this in kind with other great technologies like Web Objects (what MS has rebranded as
Whatever it is, I would like to see more of it. In what other ways could applicaitons be more tightly integrated amongst eachother?
An Apple a day keeps the BSD away.
I only came here to do two things; kick some ass, and drink some beer...looks like we're almost out of beer.
Sirius radio is in much better shape than xmsr. Also, they have commercial free radio unlike xmsr.
I love it. $50 says Apple and XM spent weeks having their Little People negotiate over it all...and this guy's just gone and done it :-)
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Mod this post down to -1 Offtopic. Please do not mod up any of the posts that have to do with bigoted views of homosexuality; instead, use your mod points on this post.
best post ever.
Interesting comments, perhaps more truthful than its parent.
I forget where the post was saying "If the stream was good enough I would pay $10 a month" "And I could listen to is anywhere on the internet". I think there is a misunderstanding on what this XM radio does. It doesn't stream anything over the net. Period. It's simply a receiver to pick up the sat signal. The software controller sends its request over the USB cable to change channels, etc.- while the line-out goes to your home stereo unit. So in short no XM radio streams over the net :-)
Sorry, this statement is just plain wrong. XM is in far better financial condition. More debt, but they have eight times the number of subscribers, and that's the name of the game. To put it in perspective, Sirius had a total of $2,000,000 (that's right, two MILLION) dollars in revenue for last quarter. That's on 1.75 BILLION in market capitalization (and $250 MILLION in debt, on top of that). Sirius will probably make it, but it will be years before they will break even. XM will clearly cash flow breakeven around the end of '05. The real kicker is XM's product development, though. Sirius has been weak, weak, while XM is innovating from the word go. It really is no contest.
Or do I sense a strong presence of homosexuality in this area?
Apple integrates the many apps together with publically accessible APIs, so that other people may do the same.
Careful how you bash Microsoft. It's fun, and I'm using Jaguar this minute to post, but nobody does a better job exposing APIs to the public than Microsoft and COM.
Guess how long it takes to make a web browser in Visual Basic 6? Seconds if you know what control to use (Microsoft Internet Control) -- and seconds if you don't; there's a pre-built form you can add from the Project-Add Form menu item. How long to add Media Player? Seconds. How about automate Excel or Word? Those are a little more complicated, but only b/c of their more complicated APIs.
(And yes, I know about cocoa and embedding browsers)
Don't get me wrong. I don't like Microsoft's silly claims that they can't take IE out of Windows OS. I hate the way they embrace and extend. I hate the way they aggresively go after smaller businesses and spend them out of existence. (imo, etc)
But when it comes to making something quickly that communicates between two application engines, whether first or third party, you won't get any more robust a solution than VB6. MS loves opening up their APIs. Means every one of your users will also have to pay the Windows Tax.
It's all 0s and 1s. Or it's not.
I don't want to start a holy war here, but what is the deal with you Mac fanatics? I've been sitting here at my freelance gig in front of a Mac (a 8600/300 w/64 Megs of RAM) for about 20 minutes now while it attempts to copy a 17 Meg file from one folder on the hard drive to another folder. 20 minutes. At home, on my Pentium Pro 200 running NT 4, which by all standards should be a lot slower than this Mac, the same operation would take about 2 minutes. If that.
In addition, during this file transfer, Netscape will not work. And everything else has ground to a halt. Even BBEdit Lite is straining to keep up as I type this.
I won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while working on various Macs, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is I've never seen a Mac that has run faster than its Wintel counterpart, despite the Macs' faster chip architecture. My 486/66 with 8 megs of ram runs faster than this 300 mhz machine at times. From a productivity standpoint, I don't get how people can claim that the Macintosh is a superior machine.
Mac addicts, flame me if you'd like, but I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use a Mac over other faster, cheaper, more stable systems.