This seems to be the case for most electronic music. A producer will go years making singles, and eventually do an artist album. Singles still rule in the EDM scene.
In many ways this race parallels NJ's last gubernatorial election. Corzine was another person who bought votes with a personal fortune but clearly couldn't cut it as a politician.
Even better, under the random sampling of posts being made in real time was this winner: "Omggg I hate this facebook is way better!"
It is kinda funny that you can now use Facebook Connect to sign onto Myspace.
On the flip side, EV-DO is available on Verizon's entire network. Verizon still has unlimited smart phone data plans. What they do to handle network capacity remains to be seen.
Yes, people don't realize that UMTS phones have multiple radios. Its not magic to support both voice and data on them. A future LTE enabled iPhone will likely do it too, since it will have two radios (one for 850/1900Mhz CDMA2000 voice/3G EVDO data and one for 700Mhz LTE 4G data)
I, too, bought an Android phone in November (Motorola Defy). I like it, it's going to work out fine for me. But I have to admit, compared to the iPhone and BlackBerry both, my phone's OS is buggy and clunky, the stock Android stuff is lacking features, and the attempts by the handset maker (Motorola) to make up for its deficiencies don't mesh well with the core OS. Unexplained things happen every so often, which don't really phase me as a seasoned computer user, but would drive my mom bats.
Looks like the smartphone OS market is shaping up to be very similar to the desktop OS market, its Android vs. iOS instead of Windows vs. MacOS.... with one important difference... No Microsoft. Something that has Redmond very worried.
The pricing certainly didn't help add market share either. People complain about the Apple Tax today, its nothing compared to what it was in the late 80s/early 90s.
Ironic that Apple has become the Big Brother they depicted in the original 1984 Macintosh ad. Then again Steve Jobs was always a control freak. Sealed all-in-one Macs with little upgrade options was his thing. When he left, the Mac II with slots showed up.
You don't have to remind me, I'm one of the many PPC users stuck with 10.5. I don't foresee buying an Intel MacBook anytime soon to replace the Powerbook G4 though.
XP SP2 was an exception rather then the norm for service packs. Normally service packs were reserved for bug fixes and minor system level updates (ex: NT4 SP4 added NTFS 3 support).
Firefox was never available for OS9. Microsoft also released a barebones version of XP to upgrade older machines. It was called Windows Fundamentals for Legacy PCs
CD-R is completely UNRELIABLE. I tried to copy some data off several CD-R that I burned only about 7 years ago.
It was an unsuccessful mess. There were many errors and unreadable data, I had to write code to skip past bad data on trying to restore from CD, etc.
most restore software just stops and barfs when it hits any error (grr!! why?)
Who made the blank media? I've seen some cheap crap that would flak and oxidize if you touched it the wrong way. Otherwise I have plenty of burned media from 1997 on that reads fine.
...Or you can use ADTPro and send the images directly to the target machine. Ciderpress can manipulate all kinds of Apple II formats and can even read/preview some of the files directly.... or you can load them up on an emulator.
You need a lab oven with precise temperature control to properly bake tapes. Others have had success using food dehydrators, but if its important data, I wouldn't risk it.
Meanwhile I have SCSI cards for ISA, VL-Bus, Apple II, Microchannel, and PCI laying around. I tend to pick up drives for dead/oddball formats as well, never know when someone will need to read data off a Floptical for example.
The problem is drivers. Vista/7 x64 dropped support for quite a few cards, including the very common Adaptec AHA-2940UW. Funny, since I was snowed in, I went through a pile of hard drives I had collected through the years. Only one PC SCSI drive and it worked fine, last used in 1997. The rest are MacOS and will be getitng to them after dinner after I uncover the PowerMac 6100/66. Most of the drives were from 68k and early PCI PowerMacs I had scrapped, should be interesting whats on them.
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Quite a few tracks on iTunes are only available with the purchase of the whole album.
This seems to be the case for most electronic music. A producer will go years making singles, and eventually do an artist album. Singles still rule in the EDM scene.
dotNET works pretty good. That or the API name or one of the languages (C#, VB.NET, ADO.NET, etc.)
Never mind its hidden in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying "Beware of The Leopard".
CA isn't the only state was a budget and pension mess. Financial woes facing state governments is in the news almost every day.
In many ways this race parallels NJ's last gubernatorial election. Corzine was another person who bought votes with a personal fortune but clearly couldn't cut it as a politician.
On the flip side, you are not required to pick up your personal phone whenever it rings.
Even better, under the random sampling of posts being made in real time was this winner: "Omggg I hate this facebook is way better!"
It is kinda funny that you can now use Facebook Connect to sign onto Myspace.
Veriozon 3g is said to be slower than ATT.
On the flip side, EV-DO is available on Verizon's entire network. Verizon still has unlimited smart phone data plans. What they do to handle network capacity remains to be seen.
Yes, people don't realize that UMTS phones have multiple radios. Its not magic to support both voice and data on them. A future LTE enabled iPhone will likely do it too, since it will have two radios (one for 850/1900Mhz CDMA2000 voice/3G EVDO data and one for 700Mhz LTE 4G data)
I, too, bought an Android phone in November (Motorola Defy). I like it, it's going to work out fine for me. But I have to admit, compared to the iPhone and BlackBerry both, my phone's OS is buggy and clunky, the stock Android stuff is lacking features, and the attempts by the handset maker (Motorola) to make up for its deficiencies don't mesh well with the core OS. Unexplained things happen every so often, which don't really phase me as a seasoned computer user, but would drive my mom bats.
Looks like the smartphone OS market is shaping up to be very similar to the desktop OS market, its Android vs. iOS instead of Windows vs. MacOS.... with one important difference... No Microsoft. Something that has Redmond very worried.
The pricing certainly didn't help add market share either. People complain about the Apple Tax today, its nothing compared to what it was in the late 80s/early 90s.
Ironic that Apple has become the Big Brother they depicted in the original 1984 Macintosh ad. Then again Steve Jobs was always a control freak. Sealed all-in-one Macs with little upgrade options was his thing. When he left, the Mac II with slots showed up.
You don't have to remind me, I'm one of the many PPC users stuck with 10.5. I don't foresee buying an Intel MacBook anytime soon to replace the Powerbook G4 though.
Thing is, Snow Leopard didn't add all that much architecturally over 10.5.... 10.5 was a big leap however.
The biggest issue was USB floppy drives couldn't read the Mac 800K GCR formatted DD disks that were still randomly hanging around.
XP SP2 was an exception rather then the norm for service packs. Normally service packs were reserved for bug fixes and minor system level updates (ex: NT4 SP4 added NTFS 3 support).
Firefox was never available for OS9. Microsoft also released a barebones version of XP to upgrade older machines. It was called Windows Fundamentals for Legacy PCs
Nothing beats a good Tri-X 400 shot for black and white. The grain adds to the charm of the picture.
Didn't Kodak introduce new Super 8mm film as well? I was surprised to learn that my father's Canon 310XL was still useful.
CD-R is completely UNRELIABLE. I tried to copy some data off several CD-R that I burned only about 7 years ago. It was an unsuccessful mess. There were many errors and unreadable data, I had to write code to skip past bad data on trying to restore from CD, etc. most restore software just stops and barfs when it hits any error (grr!! why?)
Who made the blank media? I've seen some cheap crap that would flak and oxidize if you touched it the wrong way. Otherwise I have plenty of burned media from 1997 on that reads fine.
...Or you can use ADTPro and send the images directly to the target machine. Ciderpress can manipulate all kinds of Apple II formats and can even read/preview some of the files directly.... or you can load them up on an emulator.
You need a lab oven with precise temperature control to properly bake tapes. Others have had success using food dehydrators, but if its important data, I wouldn't risk it.
Meanwhile I have SCSI cards for ISA, VL-Bus, Apple II, Microchannel, and PCI laying around. I tend to pick up drives for dead/oddball formats as well, never know when someone will need to read data off a Floptical for example.
The problem is drivers. Vista/7 x64 dropped support for quite a few cards, including the very common Adaptec AHA-2940UW. Funny, since I was snowed in, I went through a pile of hard drives I had collected through the years. Only one PC SCSI drive and it worked fine, last used in 1997. The rest are MacOS and will be getitng to them after dinner after I uncover the PowerMac 6100/66. Most of the drives were from 68k and early PCI PowerMacs I had scrapped, should be interesting whats on them.