You obviously don't value that the Prius is larger than a Corolla, more comfortable to ride in, and will probably last longer (based on the historical evidence of Prius so far).
By the time a new 2009 Prius kicks the bucket (15 years at least), we'll see where gas prices are. I'm betting we'll be above $5/gallon before the end of 2010.
Well, first of all, my initial thought was "WTF happened to my Gmail?" because this change occurred the same day that I installed OS X 10.5 (and the new Safari). Now that I know the changes were made on Gmail's end, it makes more sense.
1) For a while yesterday, the new titlebar/tab of the main Gmail window said: Gmail - Inbox - username@gmail.com (where username is my account name). Now it just says "Gmail". That's right, it doesn't update anymore to say "Inbox (1)" when I get a new mail.
2) Hovering over names in your message list gives a new style pop-up that shows the person's name, email address, and picture. Across the top of the pop-up are styled gradient buttons that say "Email", "Invite to Chat", and "More...". Clicking More will show options for "Recent Conversations" and "Show in Contact List: Auto, Always Show, Never Show, Blocked". Previously, hovering over names in the message list just showed you their email address. The new functionality seems similar to what the old version did when you hovered over your contact / chat list in the sidebar.
3) Chat now works in Safari. There are new (?) options for the chat list, including "Size of chat list: tiny, small, medium, large" and "Show in chat list: Most popular, all". (This may not be new, I never used G Chat in a browser because it didn't work on Safari before).
4) There are new actions to apply to messages. One is "Filter messages like these" the other is "mute". I'm not sure what mute does.
5) As the linked article says, Contacts management is now vastly different. It actually still looks a bit unfinished (or maybe it's just Safari's rendering, but I doubt it).
I must have missed the crucial part where the guy described Apple putting a gun to his head and forcing him to buy an iPhone.
What is with all of these people getting pissed and suing (or bitching about) Apple over the iPhone locking? You were a dumbass and voided your warranty. Now you're paying the consequences. End of story. Nobody is forcing you to buy an iPhone. If you don't like the terms and conditions, DON'T FUCKING BUY IT!
The hoover dam also had cooling pipes run through the concrete, according to the book "Cadillac Desert" by Marc Reisner (which is a history on the great water projects in the American West). It's a good read, if a little dry in sections... no pun intended.
This story is blatant bullshit. Athens, Ga has had free Wi-Fi that covers the entire downtown area as well as nearly the entire campus of the University of Georgia (adjacent to downtown) for NEARLY THREE YEARS.
Plus, Athens has a great nightlife... local and touring bands play almost every night of the week... tons of bars... and lots of hot chicks everywhere. You should see the coffee shops around here: full of cute nerdy girls on Powerbooks who dig nerdy guys!
Somehow, I really don't think Dayton, Ohio compares at all.
Of course, this is assuming that the poster's unit has the capability to make voice calls to military installations in the states. It seems like he doesn't, so I'm wondering where the hell his satcom unit is. How do they communicate with other bases???
When I was deployed to Saudi Arabia back in the Fall of '02, I used Vonage... but I left it at home. How? When I signed up for Vonage, I picked a number that was a local call from a military installation (in my case, a Boston number that's local to Hanscom Field).
Now... here's how I called home for free while deployed:
STEP 1:
I went to the Vonage web page, set my service up to forward any calls to whatever number I wanted to reach (since Vonage is free long distance, I could forward to anyone in the US or Canada).
STEP 2:
Call the Hanscom Field operator (military to military base calls are free when deployed). Ask operator to connect me to my local Vonage number, since they can't connect to a long-distance number.
STEP 3:
When the operator connected me to my Vonage number, it would ring the person I wanted to call since I entered their number as the forwarding destination for my Vonage service (through the Vonage web site).
Now, technically I didn't use VOIP for the call, but in a round about way I did make use of the Vonage service. I'd be wary of using VOIP in the field anyway, as all Internet activity goes over satcom which has extremely high latency.
Those aren't viruses. They're malicious shell- and AppleScripts. And from what I've read, they are more of a "proof of concept" than anything else. At least, I haven't seen any verifiable evidence that more than like, three people, have been "infected" by these things.
Surely they are not in the same ballpark as all the Windows viruses that circulated in 2004 and wiped out thousands of computers, anyhow.
Apple also denied having an eye on the sub-$800 PC market. During the previous conference call (October '04) they said "We don't think we can make a lot of money there."
Um, XM went commercial-free on ALL the music channels a few months ago. And the price is still $9.99/month. Plus they have weather and traffic channels for 21 major metro areas. Not to mention XM Live, where artists come play in their studio (I heard several amazing performances while I was a subscriber).
I'm thinking about doing an LD->DVD transfer if I can't get ahold of a decent DVD version that someone else has done already (and I'm sure it's been done *many* times).
Anyone know?
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I was thinking about doing this, as I have the original LDs, a Mac, and a DVD burner. Do you have any advice? Or would you be willing to part with a copy? It looks like you have more video editing experience than I do, so your version probably looks a lot better than anything I could do. Please get in touch: http://hangwire.com/
I was actually thinking about doing that as a weekend project since I've got the original LDs and a DVD burner. How good are the LD->DVD tranfers you have? Did you do it yourself?
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I've actually got them (in widescreen), but my laserdisc player died a couple years ago. I guess I should get a new one, and transfer them to my Mac and make a DVD out of it. MMmmm weekend projects =)
interesting. i was basing my previous comment on the fact that i ripped some cd's to aac, then decided i wanted them to be mp3 and that option worked. didn't know it would be different for "protected" aac files, but i guess that makes sense from a business standpoint.
You CAN burn iTunes Store music to a CD. Rip it again to MP3, put it on any device you want.
No need to burn to CD first.
If the Windows version is identical to the Mac version, just select the downloaded AAC songs in your library, then go to the menu Advanced->Convert Selection to MP3
i first got on cable modem when i moved to murfreesboro, tn in 1998. murfreesboro isn't a big town... about 40k i think, plus the university (mtsu) of about 15k students.
guess i was lucky. i've been on cable modems ever since; in atlanta, ga... burlington, vt... warner robins, ga... and macon, ga... on comcast, adelphia, and cox.
i haven't seen his movies, but i saw Gyllenhaal walking down the street in the east village (with his sister Maggie) when i was in NYC a couple weeks ago.
i couldn't imagine him as Spiderman.
then again, i thought the same thing about McGuire. it'll be interesting for sure.
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You obviously don't value that the Prius is larger than a Corolla, more comfortable to ride in, and will probably last longer (based on the historical evidence of Prius so far).
By the time a new 2009 Prius kicks the bucket (15 years at least), we'll see where gas prices are. I'm betting we'll be above $5/gallon before the end of 2010.
Talked to AT&T yesterday about adding an SMS plan to my account.
The rep said they are increasing the "pay as you go" SMS rate from 15c to 20c in March.
Yikes.
Well, first of all, my initial thought was "WTF happened to my Gmail?" because this change occurred the same day that I installed OS X 10.5 (and the new Safari). Now that I know the changes were made on Gmail's end, it makes more sense.
1) For a while yesterday, the new titlebar/tab of the main Gmail window said: Gmail - Inbox - username@gmail.com (where username is my account name). Now it just says "Gmail". That's right, it doesn't update anymore to say "Inbox (1)" when I get a new mail.
2) Hovering over names in your message list gives a new style pop-up that shows the person's name, email address, and picture. Across the top of the pop-up are styled gradient buttons that say "Email", "Invite to Chat", and "More...". Clicking More will show options for "Recent Conversations" and "Show in Contact List: Auto, Always Show, Never Show, Blocked". Previously, hovering over names in the message list just showed you their email address. The new functionality seems similar to what the old version did when you hovered over your contact / chat list in the sidebar.
3) Chat now works in Safari. There are new (?) options for the chat list, including "Size of chat list: tiny, small, medium, large" and "Show in chat list: Most popular, all". (This may not be new, I never used G Chat in a browser because it didn't work on Safari before).
4) There are new actions to apply to messages. One is "Filter messages like these" the other is "mute". I'm not sure what mute does.
5) As the linked article says, Contacts management is now vastly different. It actually still looks a bit unfinished (or maybe it's just Safari's rendering, but I doubt it).
I must have missed the crucial part where the guy described Apple putting a gun to his head and forcing him to buy an iPhone.
What is with all of these people getting pissed and suing (or bitching about) Apple over the iPhone locking? You were a dumbass and voided your warranty. Now you're paying the consequences. End of story. Nobody is forcing you to buy an iPhone. If you don't like the terms and conditions, DON'T FUCKING BUY IT!
The hoover dam also had cooling pipes run through the concrete, according to the book "Cadillac Desert" by Marc Reisner (which is a history on the great water projects in the American West). It's a good read, if a little dry in sections... no pun intended.
This story is blatant bullshit. Athens, Ga has had free Wi-Fi that covers the entire downtown area as well as nearly the entire campus of the University of Georgia (adjacent to downtown) for NEARLY THREE YEARS.
The Cloud at Athens
Plus, Athens has a great nightlife... local and touring bands play almost every night of the week ... tons of bars ... and lots of hot chicks everywhere. You should see the coffee shops around here: full of cute nerdy girls on Powerbooks who dig nerdy guys!
Somehow, I really don't think Dayton, Ohio compares at all.
Uhhhhhhh.
Except you need a special firewire cable with the proprietary iPod connector on one end. Try again.
Of course, this is assuming that the poster's unit has the capability to make voice calls to military installations in the states. It seems like he doesn't, so I'm wondering where the hell his satcom unit is. How do they communicate with other bases???
When I was deployed to Saudi Arabia back in the Fall of '02, I used Vonage... but I left it at home. How? When I signed up for Vonage, I picked a number that was a local call from a military installation (in my case, a Boston number that's local to Hanscom Field).
Now... here's how I called home for free while deployed:
STEP 1:
I went to the Vonage web page, set my service up to forward any calls to whatever number I wanted to reach (since Vonage is free long distance, I could forward to anyone in the US or Canada).
STEP 2:
Call the Hanscom Field operator (military to military base calls are free when deployed). Ask operator to connect me to my local Vonage number, since they can't connect to a long-distance number.
STEP 3:
When the operator connected me to my Vonage number, it would ring the person I wanted to call since I entered their number as the forwarding destination for my Vonage service (through the Vonage web site).
Now, technically I didn't use VOIP for the call, but in a round about way I did make use of the Vonage service. I'd be wary of using VOIP in the field anyway, as all Internet activity goes over satcom which has extremely high latency.
Ben
Those aren't viruses. They're malicious shell- and AppleScripts. And from what I've read, they are more of a "proof of concept" than anything else. At least, I haven't seen any verifiable evidence that more than like, three people, have been "infected" by these things.
Surely they are not in the same ballpark as all the Windows viruses that circulated in 2004 and wiped out thousands of computers, anyhow.
Apple also denied having an eye on the sub-$800 PC market. During the previous conference call (October '04) they said "We don't think we can make a lot of money there."
Um, XM went commercial-free on ALL the music channels a few months ago. And the price is still $9.99/month. Plus they have weather and traffic channels for 21 major metro areas. Not to mention XM Live, where artists come play in their studio (I heard several amazing performances while I was a subscriber).
What does the extra $3/month at Sirius get you?
I think XM is in the lead, for now.
Stop spreading misinformation!
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I'm thinking about doing an LD->DVD transfer if I can't get ahold of a decent DVD version that someone else has done already (and I'm sure it's been done *many* times).
Anyone know?
I was thinking about doing this, as I have the original LDs, a Mac, and a DVD burner. Do you have any advice? Or would you be willing to part with a copy? It looks like you have more video editing experience than I do, so your version probably looks a lot better than anything I could do. Please get in touch: http://hangwire.com/
I was actually thinking about doing that as a weekend project since I've got the original LDs and a DVD burner. How good are the LD->DVD tranfers you have? Did you do it yourself?
I've actually got them (in widescreen), but my laserdisc player died a couple years ago. I guess I should get a new one, and transfer them to my Mac and make a DVD out of it. MMmmm weekend projects =)
FP =)
interesting. i was basing my previous comment on the fact that i ripped some cd's to aac, then decided i wanted them to be mp3 and that option worked. didn't know it would be different for "protected" aac files, but i guess that makes sense from a business standpoint.
You CAN burn iTunes Store music to a CD. Rip it again to MP3, put it on any device you want.
No need to burn to CD first.
If the Windows version is identical to the Mac version, just select the downloaded AAC songs in your library, then go to the menu Advanced->Convert Selection to MP3
Easy.
i first got on cable modem when i moved to murfreesboro, tn in 1998. murfreesboro isn't a big town... about 40k i think, plus the university (mtsu) of about 15k students.
guess i was lucky. i've been on cable modems ever since; in atlanta, ga... burlington, vt... warner robins, ga... and macon, ga... on comcast, adelphia, and cox.
i haven't seen his movies, but i saw Gyllenhaal walking down the street in the east village (with his sister Maggie) when i was in NYC a couple weeks ago.
i couldn't imagine him as Spiderman.
then again, i thought the same thing about McGuire. it'll be interesting for sure.
According to a new item at http://macrumors.com/ the iPods have a secret "recording" option when in diagnostic mode.
Recording feature found on new iPods!
Why don't they just get some Macs? Then they can do Word/Office in a native environment instead of some Wine-like UNIX hack.
Ben
You're right, I haven't lived there, and don't know much about it. I have driven through Jersey though, and it is a nightmare. Left turn? Forget it!
Enjoy your toxic waste sites, Hazardous Air Pollution (all sources), and gardens.
It must be really great to live in a state that is #1 in Point Source Hazardous Air Pollutants (point sources)
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