the XtreMe PCR software does this. you can set it to always switch to a song you've marked as a favorite in favor of one you haven't, and to always switch away from a song you've marked as trash. and if there are no favorites playing, it will switch between a set of stations that you've told it you want to listen to.
i guess the only problem for you is that it isnt for the car radios... unless you want to go and install a laptop in your car (which i've been thinking about, just to get this functionality...)
i just bought one of these XM PCRs. i have been thinking about XM for quite a while, mostly for my car, but when i heard about this TimeTrax software, and found out the receiver is only ~$40, i bought one right away. after listening to it for a week (and being able to take it on vacation, along with my laptop) i hink xm is much better than am/fm. there is a much wider variety of stations (25 rock/hits stations, compared to 6 or 7) and they play a lot of good new music, and old music. (and, also a lot of the same crap on regular radio, but i think the good stuff more than makes up for it).
so anyway, i love the idea of timetrax. it's not like i'm going to record everything off of xm, and then cancel my subscription, and then never buy a cd. rather, there are some songs i would like to listen to a few more times than they get played, and i want to be able to record shows that i'd miss otherwise, or might want to listen to again sometime. i understand that officially, XM can't support actions like this, but threatening legal action against it only gonna piss people off, and i bet this functionality will end up selling a lot of these XM PCRs. i'm one new subscriber already.
i might record a song off xm radio and listen to it an indefinite amount of times, but i'm still paying $10 a month for the xm radio. i'm not going to amass a library of songs, and then suddenly cancel my subscription.
i still want to hear new music. and xm it's not my only source of music. i'm still buying CDs from the same artists i have been, and new artists that i like. i'm sure someone who's willing to pay for radio instead of listeneing to fm is somewhat of a music enthusiast, and does the same.
so, my guess is that people recording songs off of fm, and having software to do it automatically, is not going to cause much harm...
The audio is digital comming off the XM signal, but it's analog by the time it leaves the black box
there's a mod too add a TOSlink connector to the xm pcr, which provides digital out. i dont have it on mine, but according to some tests people did, it's slightly better than the line out, with less white noise.
i like the idea of a usb dongle better than swapping a cd in and out of my computer all the time. (i have 8 usb ports, and only 2 optical drives...). i also like it better than the idea of having to register my cd-key online...
hmm, i was confused by the statement 'they have been unable to offer' these discs, because i have seen them in stores. but i guess boston (and the surrounding areas) must have been a test market, according to the article.
besides that, this is stupid. i hate double sided discs, (the only ones i've seen so far are movies with a fullscreen and widescreen verison on a single DVD). i like the idea of bundling a separate cd and dvd in one package, what's wrong with sticking with that model?
Apple purchased from Casady & Greene and then improved.
"improved" in some ways, but at the time of iTunes 1.0, they took out a LOT of features from soundjam that i rather enjoyed... i would still use soundjam over iTunes, if it were available for OS X.
how hard is inch-meter conversion? 1 inch per 2.54 centimeters, times one hundred centimeters equals 39.37 inches per centimeter... it took me 4 seconds to plug that into a calculator, and i didnt have to google 20 pages... (if you dont know how many centmeters in an inch... look at any ruler that has both. i just remembered it from junior high school physics...)
you can't legislate that shit. google can do whatever the hell they want with users' email, as long as they make it clear that they are doing that. if it was like 'we cache every email and make it public,' who cares? if you don't want all your email public, dont use their service. if you dont want them searching your emails and placing ads based on it, or selling your personal information, don't use it. don't pass laws agains it!
you can also go to the technet site, check the securiity bulletin page, and download only the patches you need, individually. there's no way for them to check your activation if you do it that way...
they assume that the only people buying them are not upgrading
to run the software, you need apple hardware, which comes with the operating system no matter what. so in theory, everyone who's buying a new version of Mac OS is upgrading from a previous version of Mac OS.
the only exception i can think of is people buying used macs that dont contain the OS, in which case they would be buying the OS from scratch...
In an unrelated question, has anyone tried the spray on products for defeating "speed cameras"? Found one listed at Phantom Plate but don't know if the stuff really works.
i think i saw something like that on my way to work this morning. i couldnt read the lisence plate, and i was almost directly behind the car...
i hadnt really thought about that, but there are plenty of bike paths around here where there sre no traffic sounds, so i'm not too worried about it...
when they were first announced, my thought along with a million other people) was 'the 4 gb is 250, and the 15 gb is 300. who woud buy the mini?'. i konw someone at work who came to the same conclusion, and went with the 5. i actually sprang for the 20 gb model, because it also comes with a case, remote, and dock. i use the damn thing all the time. however, i find myself wanting to get an iPod mini also. i figure i can use the iPod in my ar, or when i'm at me desk, and use the mini when i'm walking around or (if i ever get around to it) jogging and bike riding. that thing is smaller and lighter enough to me that i would like to have one. and after spending 400 on the 20 gig, 250 doesnt seem like a lot to me.
that doesnt make any sense. even if there were 10 times as many mac users than there are now, it would still have the exact same number of security holes. if wondows had 10% of the users it does now, it would still have the same number of security holes.
now, the number of these holes that are exploited might depend on the number of people using the product. but tend to believe that the reason more holes are found in microsoft products is because more holes exist in it, and they are easier to find. not because it has more users.
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the XtreMe PCR software does this. you can set it to always switch to a song you've marked as a favorite in favor of one you haven't, and to always switch away from a song you've marked as trash. and if there are no favorites playing, it will switch between a set of stations that you've told it you want to listen to.
i guess the only problem for you is that it isnt for the car radios... unless you want to go and install a laptop in your car (which i've been thinking about, just to get this functionality...)
i just bought one of these XM PCRs. i have been thinking about XM for quite a while, mostly for my car, but when i heard about this TimeTrax software, and found out the receiver is only ~$40, i bought one right away. after listening to it for a week (and being able to take it on vacation, along with my laptop) i hink xm is much better than am/fm. there is a much wider variety of stations (25 rock/hits stations, compared to 6 or 7) and they play a lot of good new music, and old music. (and, also a lot of the same crap on regular radio, but i think the good stuff more than makes up for it).
so anyway, i love the idea of timetrax. it's not like i'm going to record everything off of xm, and then cancel my subscription, and then never buy a cd. rather, there are some songs i would like to listen to a few more times than they get played, and i want to be able to record shows that i'd miss otherwise, or might want to listen to again sometime. i understand that officially, XM can't support actions like this, but threatening legal action against it only gonna piss people off, and i bet this functionality will end up selling a lot of these XM PCRs. i'm one new subscriber already.
i might record a song off xm radio and listen to it an indefinite amount of times, but i'm still paying $10 a month for the xm radio. i'm not going to amass a library of songs, and then suddenly cancel my subscription.
i still want to hear new music. and xm it's not my only source of music. i'm still buying CDs from the same artists i have been, and new artists that i like. i'm sure someone who's willing to pay for radio instead of listeneing to fm is somewhat of a music enthusiast, and does the same.
so, my guess is that people recording songs off of fm, and having software to do it automatically, is not going to cause much harm...
The audio is digital comming off the XM signal, but it's analog by the time it leaves the black box
there's a mod too add a TOSlink connector to the xm pcr, which provides digital out. i dont have it on mine, but according to some tests people did, it's slightly better than the line out, with less white noise.
i like the idea of a usb dongle better than swapping a cd in and out of my computer all the time. (i have 8 usb ports, and only 2 optical drives...). i also like it better than the idea of having to register my cd-key online...
hmm, i was confused by the statement 'they have been unable to offer' these discs, because i have seen them in stores. but i guess boston (and the surrounding areas) must have been a test market, according to the article.
besides that, this is stupid. i hate double sided discs, (the only ones i've seen so far are movies with a fullscreen and widescreen verison on a single DVD). i like the idea of bundling a separate cd and dvd in one package, what's wrong with sticking with that model?
a significant update to the most popular hard-drive based mp3 player.
i usually find it's the opposite. don't confuse the republicans with facts when you're trying to argue against them...
what the hell are you talking about
yes, but guns are made specifically for that purpose.
i hope it gets more useful every day... right now its usefulness is 0.
I don't think their machines come with the proper utilities and they are usually not clued in enough to know anything about DNS
ping, tracert, and nslookup. the holy trinity of network troubleshooting in ms-dos...
Apple purchased from Casady & Greene and then improved.
"improved" in some ways, but at the time of iTunes 1.0, they took out a LOT of features from soundjam that i rather enjoyed... i would still use soundjam over iTunes, if it were available for OS X.
how hard is inch-meter conversion? 1 inch per 2.54 centimeters, times one hundred centimeters equals 39.37 inches per centimeter... it took me 4 seconds to plug that into a calculator, and i didnt have to google 20 pages... (if you dont know how many centmeters in an inch... look at any ruler that has both. i just remembered it from junior high school physics...)
you can't legislate that shit. google can do whatever the hell they want with users' email, as long as they make it clear that they are doing that. if it was like 'we cache every email and make it public,' who cares? if you don't want all your email public, dont use their service. if you dont want them searching your emails and placing ads based on it, or selling your personal information, don't use it. don't pass laws agains it!
No, I'm an alpaca, you insensitive clod
you can also go to the technet site, check the securiity bulletin page, and download only the patches you need, individually. there's no way for them to check your activation if you do it that way...
they assume that the only people buying them are not upgrading
to run the software, you need apple hardware, which comes with the operating system no matter what. so in theory, everyone who's buying a new version of Mac OS is upgrading from a previous version of Mac OS.
the only exception i can think of is people buying used macs that dont contain the OS, in which case they would be buying the OS from scratch...
In an unrelated question, has anyone tried the spray on products for defeating "speed cameras"? Found one listed at Phantom Plate but don't know if the stuff really works.
i think i saw something like that on my way to work this morning. i couldnt read the lisence plate, and i was almost directly behind the car...
if it's converted into a computer file, wouldnt it be digital? and what if it was recorded on a digital camcorder?
It would be such a pain to have to migrate from Windows ME in order to use Office 12
i figure it would be such a pain to be using Win ME...
i hadnt really thought about that, but there are plenty of bike paths around here where there sre no traffic sounds, so i'm not too worried about it...
when they were first announced, my thought along with a million other people) was 'the 4 gb is 250, and the 15 gb is 300. who woud buy the mini?'. i konw someone at work who came to the same conclusion, and went with the 5. i actually sprang for the 20 gb model, because it also comes with a case, remote, and dock. i use the damn thing all the time. however, i find myself wanting to get an iPod mini also. i figure i can use the iPod in my ar, or when i'm at me desk, and use the mini when i'm walking around or (if i ever get around to it) jogging and bike riding. that thing is smaller and lighter enough to me that i would like to have one. and after spending 400 on the 20 gig, 250 doesnt seem like a lot to me.
Be ready for The World Wide Wardrive coming-up in June!
hmm... i'll have to get a gps and a car adapter for my laptop... but count me in.
that doesnt make any sense. even if there were 10 times as many mac users than there are now, it would still have the exact same number of security holes. if wondows had 10% of the users it does now, it would still have the same number of security holes.
now, the number of these holes that are exploited might depend on the number of people using the product. but tend to believe that the reason more holes are found in microsoft products is because more holes exist in it, and they are easier to find. not because it has more users.