Except that there aren't any "undocumented" Cubans. They just have to reach the beach and are automatically on a fast track to citizenship, with no need for Harry Reid to pander to them. A big reason for the embargo was that Fidel's Cuba basically seized the property of Cuban citizens who escaped to the US, and there are still a lot of expats and their descendants who aren't happy about basically having all their stuff stolen from them.
The undocumented from Mexico and south of there don't care about Cuba.
Once the construction is done, all it takes is a few exploratory drivers with Waze turned on (such as locals going outside the neighborhood), and it will quickly learn that the roads are open again. Have you never had a problem with ants? This is how ants work, only they leave scent trails behind instead of needing an internet connection.
That particular stretch of road (405) is pretty much the _only_ north south passage through that part of LA because of geography (and crappy urban planning.) It could be 30 lanes in each direction and still be slow.
Northwest Austin has a similar problem, though on a much smaller scale. The only two roads that go out from the city are US 183 (a surface highway upgraded to freeway in the past two decades) and Parmer Lane (a 6-lane highway street with traffic lights, though mercifully the worst intersection has good topography for an overpass someday). There are roads that cut across perpendicular to them, but not parallel. (Part of the problem is that development beyond Parmer is blocked by the Robertson Ranch area, which the heirs want to unload slowly for tax reasons, while beyond 183 is too hilly.)
It would be worse if it was a major through-traffic route (like I-35 is), but it's a major rush hour traffic pain as it is.
What amazes me is that in all the years Apple has been making smartphones, it's still impossible to add a music file from email to itunes on the phone.
It's not really amazing if you think of it in the right context: Any music not acquired via RIAA-approved methods must be piracy, according to the RIAA. Ripping CDs is allowed, but only grudgingly, because it was already being done before they knew it could be a "problem". P2P file sharing (aka Napster and its many descendants) is right out.
Also, e-mail? Of all the ways to get music files, that doesn't really seem convienent. Do you watch Netflix movies via e-mail? Just because you could do something doesn't mean it's a great idea. And I've never heard of Windows users sending music via e-mail, so as far as cheap shots go, that's a pretty lame one.
Not to mention that Apple has already switched Macintosh CPU architectures twice, so it's not like they haven't done it before. However, both of those times they bridged the transition with emulation technology to ensure that older applications would still run until "fat" versions appeared. Could they get away without an emulation period this time? Maybe. Having an existing app infrastructure in the new CPU architecture will certainly help.
I've ripped a few songs off of vinyl, and they still sound like vinyl when I play them on my iPod, and I'm not talking about the snap crackle pop. The highs sound too "bright" or something.
I suppose if they were brand new records, played on one of those laser record players, there might be a difference, but that would hardly be a typical vinyl listening environment. Otherwise, it's just a form of distortion that is desirable to some people, like vacuum tube amplifiers. Also, the weakest link is still the human ear. Older ears are going to hear things differently.
That's why I still use my 4GB 1st-gen Nano. (And yes, I know many of them had a problem with their batteries, to the point where Apple just takes them back and gives you a brand new different model.) I don't have to look at it to change tracks while driving.
The best part is finding really cheap CDs used. Although that will become less convenient in the future now that Apple is taking optical drives out of their computers.
How exactly did you get that missing music onto your old iPod in the first place? I'm sure the newer iOS-based stuff is different, but classic iPods kept the master copy of music on your computer and had no other way to put music on the iPod except via iTunes sync. So you would never actually "move" the music when upgrading, you would just add the new iPod in iTunes and sync with it. Not having used iTunes with two iPods before, I suppose it's possible that you could load a different set of playlists to each one, which would explain your problem.
It is very clear that you have never owned an iPod or used iTunes with one. The model (particularly at the time in question) is that the master copy of the music is kept on your computer's hard drive. You manage the list of music files on the computer via iTunes, and then iTunes does a one-way synchronization of the files and index to match the master set.
What happened here is that Real found a way to steal (yes, I said it) usage of Apple's DRM method via a loophole. They used Apple's proprietary code and algorithms for their own profit. Either they updated the iPod directly (thus creating an index that didn't match the master copy in iTunes) or they messed around with the iTunes database on the master computer. If the latter had been the case, we would hear about music being "deleted" from within iTunes as well. If the former had been the case, well, if you want to throw away iTunes and keep using whatever music manager Real provides, go right on ahead, but stop using iTunes. If it was the latter, then they were messing around with undocumented and unsupported ways of adding music to iTunes. Neither of which method Apple ever assumed or implied any obligation to support.
If you truly cared about intellectual property, you would see that the Fairplay system was entirely a proprietary creation of Apple, and Real was using it (for profit!) without authorization. Authorization which, by the way, Apple was under no obligation to grant. How is apple supposed to make money if other companies can use their proprietary (and probably patented) DRM software without authorization? (Sorry, but being in control of your own proprietary product is not a "monopoly", and if it was, Sony would be guilty of it, too.)
Seriously, years ago when I looked at the filesystem on my 1st generation iPod Nano (which still works and hasn't yet caught fire, probably because I use it in a car, and not as a walkman) the music was simply in an invisible folder with random file names. I presume that the song list was a simple flat database file somewhere in there to keep track of those random file names. It wasn't encrypted, just obfuscated so that you couldn't trivially mount it as a flash drive and copy specific song files from it. (And I never used the iTMS.)
Also, once I found five CD-Rs of a 6-disc set backup of someone's iPod and it was basically the same, only the songs on it were mostly with the old iTMS DRM, so they were unusable because of their encryption (in the music files, not the file system).
Real is just trying to sue to get some money because they're just a slowly dying company at this point. They've just slowly been bleeding money and eventually will end up declaring bankruptcy or selling their brand name, though I'm not really sure whey anyone would want it.
In electronics, brand names like RCA and Zenith have certainly been sold around. After all, they used to be well-known and well-respected names and... oh wait, never mind, this is Real we're talking about.
Probably never, because those contain the GPL virus, which has been around for about 25 years now. They (or someone else) would have to create a clean-room implementation without GPL. Then again, after a little bit of searching, it seems like the BSD guys have tried to do something like that, not that it's anywhere near good enough to allow general usage (or even anything more than migrating data from ext[234]) by inexperienced users.
Or maybe they could just open up NTFS, and bring to light all the little undocumented things that make 3rd-party implementations unsafe to use in read-write mode.
Battlestar Galactica lasted just one season on ABC from 1978-79
We all want to forget Galactica '80, but it did happen. I don't remember much about it, because I was a kid then, other than Starbuck walking around in a white uniform. But I also remember that Cracked magazine had done a Galactica spoof a few months before, where at the end they find Earth and it's the 20th century. I was both shocked and amused that the TV people actually went and did that for real.
FWIW, even the original DVD of the first episode / movie version was in glorious 1.1 mono with SENSURROUND. Dude rigged up the wrong home theater equipment, he needed sub-woofers! Stereo (like color and wide screen) is just one of those things that you miss the most from stuff that came out just before it went mainstream.
You can hang a caller ID box on your line and watch the kind of crap that comes in. Usually they try to make a "real" phone number, only it's in an area code you've never heard of. But some of them give shit like "123-4567" or just "1" or "---------------" for the phone number. Also fun are the ones that set the name to "NEW YORK" or "FLORDIA". I can just imagine Cletus from the Simpsons saying "Well gawwwawleee we've got us a call from NOO YARK!"
The insidious ones are like mentioned in TFS, where they use an actual number that's not theirs, often picked at random. I heard of one case where they used the phone number of some little old lady in Boston, who of course got all the backscatter from the phone spammers.
And of course most people on the receiving end of the junk calls have no clue that the CNID could ever possibly lie to them.
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I have a feeling that Trey and Matt are going to do well in the coming week or two. I still haven't seen Team America, and I can't be the only one.
Except that there aren't any "undocumented" Cubans. They just have to reach the beach and are automatically on a fast track to citizenship, with no need for Harry Reid to pander to them. A big reason for the embargo was that Fidel's Cuba basically seized the property of Cuban citizens who escaped to the US, and there are still a lot of expats and their descendants who aren't happy about basically having all their stuff stolen from them.
The undocumented from Mexico and south of there don't care about Cuba.
Once the construction is done, all it takes is a few exploratory drivers with Waze turned on (such as locals going outside the neighborhood), and it will quickly learn that the roads are open again. Have you never had a problem with ants? This is how ants work, only they leave scent trails behind instead of needing an internet connection.
That particular stretch of road (405) is pretty much the _only_ north south passage through that part of LA because of geography (and crappy urban planning.) It could be 30 lanes in each direction and still be slow.
Northwest Austin has a similar problem, though on a much smaller scale. The only two roads that go out from the city are US 183 (a surface highway upgraded to freeway in the past two decades) and Parmer Lane (a 6-lane highway street with traffic lights, though mercifully the worst intersection has good topography for an overpass someday). There are roads that cut across perpendicular to them, but not parallel. (Part of the problem is that development beyond Parmer is blocked by the Robertson Ranch area, which the heirs want to unload slowly for tax reasons, while beyond 183 is too hilly.)
It would be worse if it was a major through-traffic route (like I-35 is), but it's a major rush hour traffic pain as it is.
What amazes me is that in all the years Apple has been making smartphones, it's still impossible to add a music file from email to itunes on the phone.
It's not really amazing if you think of it in the right context: Any music not acquired via RIAA-approved methods must be piracy, according to the RIAA. Ripping CDs is allowed, but only grudgingly, because it was already being done before they knew it could be a "problem". P2P file sharing (aka Napster and its many descendants) is right out.
Also, e-mail? Of all the ways to get music files, that doesn't really seem convienent. Do you watch Netflix movies via e-mail? Just because you could do something doesn't mean it's a great idea. And I've never heard of Windows users sending music via e-mail, so as far as cheap shots go, that's a pretty lame one.
Not to mention that Apple has already switched Macintosh CPU architectures twice, so it's not like they haven't done it before. However, both of those times they bridged the transition with emulation technology to ensure that older applications would still run until "fat" versions appeared. Could they get away without an emulation period this time? Maybe. Having an existing app infrastructure in the new CPU architecture will certainly help.
I've ripped a few songs off of vinyl, and they still sound like vinyl when I play them on my iPod, and I'm not talking about the snap crackle pop. The highs sound too "bright" or something.
I suppose if they were brand new records, played on one of those laser record players, there might be a difference, but that would hardly be a typical vinyl listening environment. Otherwise, it's just a form of distortion that is desirable to some people, like vacuum tube amplifiers. Also, the weakest link is still the human ear. Older ears are going to hear things differently.
That's why I still use my 4GB 1st-gen Nano. (And yes, I know many of them had a problem with their batteries, to the point where Apple just takes them back and gives you a brand new different model.) I don't have to look at it to change tracks while driving.
Well, actually, Google is an ISP, just not a major one. Ever hear of Google Fiber?
The best part is finding really cheap CDs used. Although that will become less convenient in the future now that Apple is taking optical drives out of their computers.
How exactly did you get that missing music onto your old iPod in the first place? I'm sure the newer iOS-based stuff is different, but classic iPods kept the master copy of music on your computer and had no other way to put music on the iPod except via iTunes sync. So you would never actually "move" the music when upgrading, you would just add the new iPod in iTunes and sync with it. Not having used iTunes with two iPods before, I suppose it's possible that you could load a different set of playlists to each one, which would explain your problem.
It is very clear that you have never owned an iPod or used iTunes with one. The model (particularly at the time in question) is that the master copy of the music is kept on your computer's hard drive. You manage the list of music files on the computer via iTunes, and then iTunes does a one-way synchronization of the files and index to match the master set.
What happened here is that Real found a way to steal (yes, I said it) usage of Apple's DRM method via a loophole. They used Apple's proprietary code and algorithms for their own profit. Either they updated the iPod directly (thus creating an index that didn't match the master copy in iTunes) or they messed around with the iTunes database on the master computer. If the latter had been the case, we would hear about music being "deleted" from within iTunes as well. If the former had been the case, well, if you want to throw away iTunes and keep using whatever music manager Real provides, go right on ahead, but stop using iTunes. If it was the latter, then they were messing around with undocumented and unsupported ways of adding music to iTunes. Neither of which method Apple ever assumed or implied any obligation to support.
If you truly cared about intellectual property, you would see that the Fairplay system was entirely a proprietary creation of Apple, and Real was using it (for profit!) without authorization. Authorization which, by the way, Apple was under no obligation to grant. How is apple supposed to make money if other companies can use their proprietary (and probably patented) DRM software without authorization? (Sorry, but being in control of your own proprietary product is not a "monopoly", and if it was, Sony would be guilty of it, too.)
encrypted file system
[Citation needed]
Seriously, years ago when I looked at the filesystem on my 1st generation iPod Nano (which still works and hasn't yet caught fire, probably because I use it in a car, and not as a walkman) the music was simply in an invisible folder with random file names. I presume that the song list was a simple flat database file somewhere in there to keep track of those random file names. It wasn't encrypted, just obfuscated so that you couldn't trivially mount it as a flash drive and copy specific song files from it. (And I never used the iTMS.)
Also, once I found five CD-Rs of a 6-disc set backup of someone's iPod and it was basically the same, only the songs on it were mostly with the old iTMS DRM, so they were unusable because of their encryption (in the music files, not the file system).
Real is just trying to sue to get some money because they're just a slowly dying company at this point. They've just slowly been bleeding money and eventually will end up declaring bankruptcy or selling their brand name, though I'm not really sure whey anyone would want it.
In electronics, brand names like RCA and Zenith have certainly been sold around. After all, they used to be well-known and well-respected names and... oh wait, never mind, this is Real we're talking about.
When Queen Elizabeth II was just a "princess", she was doing automotive maintenance.
They should go after Bitcoin Inc. and force them to comply, amirite?
The difference is that Windows won't let you roll back to a version that is known not to have the lockup bugs.
Probably never, because those contain the GPL virus, which has been around for about 25 years now. They (or someone else) would have to create a clean-room implementation without GPL. Then again, after a little bit of searching, it seems like the BSD guys have tried to do something like that, not that it's anywhere near good enough to allow general usage (or even anything more than migrating data from ext[234]) by inexperienced users.
Or maybe they could just open up NTFS, and bring to light all the little undocumented things that make 3rd-party implementations unsafe to use in read-write mode.
I find it more disturbing that these so-called "Australians" achieved a profanity density as low as 0.14!
I'm particularly fond of the Intel 4004 35th Anniversary Project, which used surface-mount transistors laid out as a copy of the actual 4004 silicon.
Battlestar Galactica lasted just one season on ABC from 1978-79
We all want to forget Galactica '80, but it did happen. I don't remember much about it, because I was a kid then, other than Starbuck walking around in a white uniform. But I also remember that Cracked magazine had done a Galactica spoof a few months before, where at the end they find Earth and it's the 20th century. I was both shocked and amused that the TV people actually went and did that for real.
FWIW, even the original DVD of the first episode / movie version was in glorious 1.1 mono with SENSURROUND. Dude rigged up the wrong home theater equipment, he needed sub-woofers! Stereo (like color and wide screen) is just one of those things that you miss the most from stuff that came out just before it went mainstream.
You can hang a caller ID box on your line and watch the kind of crap that comes in. Usually they try to make a "real" phone number, only it's in an area code you've never heard of. But some of them give shit like "123-4567" or just "1" or "---------------" for the phone number. Also fun are the ones that set the name to "NEW YORK" or "FLORDIA". I can just imagine Cletus from the Simpsons saying "Well gawwwawleee we've got us a call from NOO YARK!"
The insidious ones are like mentioned in TFS, where they use an actual number that's not theirs, often picked at random. I heard of one case where they used the phone number of some little old lady in Boston, who of course got all the backscatter from the phone spammers.
And of course most people on the receiving end of the junk calls have no clue that the CNID could ever possibly lie to them.
It's not a matter of if but when there will a catastrophic fire from hauling all that oil by rail.
You mean like this one?