I just don't like seeing that stuff without any kind of warning about what I'm getting into, and then getting the kind of reaction I did to just raising the protest that there wasn't much of a warning kind of threw me off. I have the option turned on that warns me where links go, so I don't click on things that go to dubious domains. That's all.
If all you can do is insult people who might not want to see that stuff, then you can fuck off and keep your insulting remarks to yourself. How 'protected' my life is is none of your business. If the best you can do is to personally insult somebody, then I think I'm not the one who needs to grow up around here.
The story in the link disgusted me. I don't want to see graphical stuff like that without a warning. Someone go back and add a warning to the link, for godssakes.
I'm in partial agreement with this case. While I currently use Jaguar on a Powerbook DVI, formerly I used earlier versions of OS X (10.0 and 10.1) on a Powerbook Lombard (the model with the bronze keyboard). While DVD players were an option with that model, the one I purchased (or rather, the university I work for purchased for me) was the model with the DVD reader. Thus, I used it quite a bit to watch DVDs in OS 9 and was pleased that I could do so. I took it on a few trips and carried entertainment with me.
When 10.1 came out it was quite a big deal that it finally added DVD viewing support, and there was no mention of the fact that it was not going to work fully as advertised on all systems. In fact, Apple made a big deal of the fact that you could run OS X on a lot of older systems going back to some of the old beige towers (I'm pretty sure about that) and implied in the "usable on older systems" was the fact that all features would work as they were advertised to on all of those systems. I was in full expectation that all of the features would work, and I can't possibly have been alone.
I was quite disappointed to discover that apparently hardware acceleration, which I have long been told from many sources is actually better because it offloads a lot of the processing tasks onto the video system instead of the CPU, was actually the reason why DVD playing did NOT work. I couldn't play DVDs -- if I tried I'd get a message stating that my system wasn't compatible -- even after Apple released a DVD player update! How was I supposed to fix this? "Go buy a new Powerbook". That was unacceptable given the fact that Apple had always given the impression that OS X would be fully supported on G3 systems. That apparently meant "some G3 systems" even though no qualifiers were printed on any preview materials.
I'll be returning my discs for a refund since it didn't work as advertised (which did bother me) and because I don't use OS X on that old Powerbook anymore. It's just relegated to Photoshopping in OS 9. It sounds like what I've seen so far is indicating a full refund, which I won't argue with if true... we'll have to see. A partial refund was more my expectation since a lot of other features DID work as advertised, but hey, I can use the cash for a discount on a new iPod (I want the backlit-buttons version in part because I plan to use it in my Volkswagen, and the red illumination of the controls in the car matches. It'll look really spiffy.:) )
The point of this case was (rightfully) that if there are going to be exclusions for "it works with existing stuff" the exceptions need to be listed so nobody ends up disappointed like I was. It's just fair. It's a real shame there had to be a lawsuit to make it happen.
One gray night it happened: The money it came no more And SCO that corporation, it ceased its fearless roar Board heads were bent in sorrow, their tears fell like rain Lawyers no longer went to play in the courtroom's great domain Without its greenbacked friends, SCO could not be brave And so that 'mighty' corporation finally slipped into its cave
-- kudos to anyone who names that tune.:)
JVC just as good as Sony -- and cheaper
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I have a JVC 20-inch TV and I'm quite happy with it. It's a 20-inch set because I didn't feel like I needed any more than that and I didn't want the TV to overwhelm the room (and I have a smallish house), and I've never regretted the choice.
Pluses:
Flat-screen CRT with high-quality picture
Blacks are actually black and not very dark gray
It's hard to see the individual scan lines (esp. at 20") so the picture looks like it's drawn progressively
Closed captioning crisp and easy to read (I'm hearing impaired, so this is very important, and all TVs 13" [I think, could be 17"] or larger sold in the US are required to have a decoder built in by law)
Captioning on/channel select/off button directly on remote, no need to wade through menus to toggle it back on if for some reason it ever gets turned off
Component video inputs, leads to better picture, works very well with my $90 Pioneer DVD player with component video out
Cons: No major ones yet!
Price: About $300 at a typical electronics store
This same set is available in other screen sizes, so if 20" is too small for you, check out the rest of the line.
I'd like to see Missouri landmarks put on our plates as an optional vanity plate. Like the Arch or something. Still, our existing plates aren't too bad, and look quite nice on my white VW.
It's dumb, but at least we don't have our website URL plastered on our license plates like Pennsylvania does. Does it surprise you that that was Tom Ridge's idea?
VW also made, back in the 60s, Microbuses with doors on both sides, thus beating the doors-on-both-sides minivans by several decades as well. They even made some sliding-door split-window buses way back then, even though most of that type had double doors on one side only. I have personally seen double-door Vanagons made for the German military, so they may even still be making those, and I saw a double-door splittie bus today, at a show.
Take that, Chrysler!
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The Microbus you mention was the first real minivan. The first third-door pickup was the VW double-cab Microbus 'pickup'. These models were produced in the 1960s -- decades before Chrysler ever came up with the idea of copying.
The first Microbus was built, I believe, in 1954. The Voyager/Caravan came out when? 1980something?
Chrysler not only never takes risks... it outright lies and steals credit. I bristle every time I see them claim they were "first" at these things. But then... this is capitalist America. He who lies and doesn't get caught wins because Americans are too dumb and cattle-minded to check facts.
Volkswagen does similar -- but North American consumers are locked out of the customizability European buyers are offered. Volkswagen of America only offers a small range of prepackaged models while European consumers can customize the car just any way they want, and a lot of options are just unavailable here (like xenon headlamps in Golfs/Jettas, GPS nav systems, etc.)
Customized cars are not anything new -- carmakers just assume Americans don't want to customize their cars and are happy with prepackaged versions. At least in the case of many of VW's rabid loyalist fans (like myself) that's not true, and the company really needs to experiment with BTO offerings here. I bet they'd find it has more potential for profit than they think it does.
It's not. I took it to the apple store and talked to the tech there, he says it's common with these and I've tried it with more than just my stereo. It doesn't work.
Griffin refused me a refund because I didn't buy it direct from them. Apple wouldn't give me one either because it "isn't defective, it's designed that way."
I bought an iTrip for use in my 2000 VW Golf GLS (no Raintronic, so no weird coating on the windshield). It doesn't work. It never has. The car's stereo can't pick it up, even if I hold the iPod up through the open sunroof so the whip antenna on the back of the car can see it directly without the sheet metal of the car in the way. I have a European radio retrofitted into the car but that should have no effect as the only difference in the FM band is that it will try to tune to even-numbered frequencies as well as odd ones. (Too bad transmitters won't broadcast on those freqs, as I guarantee no regular commercial station in the US will be licensed for an even numbered frequency.)
Anyone want to buy it? Seriously. I want to get rid of the thing. My solution is going to be hardwiring an adapter to the car's CD changer plug and adding a switch that lets me toggle between the CD changer (I got one used off another VW owner, cheap) and the RCA inputs.
And the other FM transmitter I have, a Belkin TuneCast, doesn't work either -- if a radio broadcast so much 'looks' at it crosseyed, it's static hell.
Low-power FM transmission is, in my experience, a joke and a marketing tool. It ranges from nonexistent to having more static than an interplanetary broadcast from Martians.
Supposedly the wait is just for the person in charge of that part of the code to actually respond to all the complaints and put the MNG code back in. There's nothing else holding MNG back from going in.
With the many hundreds of votes the bug has, I don't know why they can't just override the deadbeat and put it in anyway.
Not cheaper... it doesn't make rockets cost less. What it does do is allow a given rocket to carry more payload than it would be able to carry if launched from a location farther north. The equator is the idea launching spot.
That location is Korou, French Guiana. And it was chosen due to its proximity to the equator because the faster rotation of the Earth at the equator gives launchers a significant "free" boost. This is also why Soyuz rockets will begin launching from Korou soon -- they will be considerably more powerful than they are when launching from Baikonur in Kazakhstan, which is much farther north.
Florida was chosen for the US space center because launch accidents will only drop debris in the ocean rather than on populated areas (unlike Baikonur and China's launch center) and because Florida is quite far south as far as US states go.
Er.... I have a European VW stereo installed in my VW Golf because the European model has better sound and some more features and is made by Blaupunkt, a more reputable company than the original OEM manufacturer, at least to me.
I bought it online from a UK seller using a US Mastercard.
While I was in Canada, I bought a number of items using my Bank of America VISA check card. No problems there.
Seems to me like cross-border validation is working fine.
I got an HP JetDirect EX external print server from a local seller on eBay for $10.50. Then I discovered that you can still get them new for $99. I saved a lot of money, there.
The printer it's attached to is a Laserjet 4MP that is only on its second toner cartridge and is working fantastically well.
It will also work with any OS, as I'm using Mac OS X to print to it via AppleTalk, and a Windows XP Corporate (no registration crud) box to print to it via LPR. HP's site also gives instructions for configuring it for OS 8-9 and Linux -- the thing is very platform-neutral.
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I never said whether I was *offended* or not. I just wasn't in the *mood* to see stuff like that and so I would have liked fair warning.
I guess I just got lucky. :)
:)
I just don't like seeing that stuff without any kind of warning about what I'm getting into, and then getting the kind of reaction I did to just raising the protest that there wasn't much of a warning kind of threw me off. I have the option turned on that warns me where links go, so I don't click on things that go to dubious domains. That's all.
Oh, and by the way, I use OS X and love it.
No hard feelings, I hope.
Ahhhh, I see. You're pissed off because the Billy Goats Gruff crossed your bridge before you could stop them.
My apologies. Hope you enjoy the mud down there.
If all you can do is insult people who might not want to see that stuff, then you can fuck off and keep your insulting remarks to yourself. How 'protected' my life is is none of your business. If the best you can do is to personally insult somebody, then I think I'm not the one who needs to grow up around here.
The story in the link disgusted me. I don't want to see graphical stuff like that without a warning. Someone go back and add a warning to the link, for godssakes.
Nope; doesn't work, I've seen reports that it doesn't. (I don't have day to day access to that machine anymore; my boss has it at home.)
I'm in partial agreement with this case. While I currently use Jaguar on a Powerbook DVI, formerly I used earlier versions of OS X (10.0 and 10.1) on a Powerbook Lombard (the model with the bronze keyboard). While DVD players were an option with that model, the one I purchased (or rather, the university I work for purchased for me) was the model with the DVD reader. Thus, I used it quite a bit to watch DVDs in OS 9 and was pleased that I could do so. I took it on a few trips and carried entertainment with me.
... we'll have to see. A partial refund was more my expectation since a lot of other features DID work as advertised, but hey, I can use the cash for a discount on a new iPod (I want the backlit-buttons version in part because I plan to use it in my Volkswagen, and the red illumination of the controls in the car matches. It'll look really spiffy. :) )
When 10.1 came out it was quite a big deal that it finally added DVD viewing support, and there was no mention of the fact that it was not going to work fully as advertised on all systems. In fact, Apple made a big deal of the fact that you could run OS X on a lot of older systems going back to some of the old beige towers (I'm pretty sure about that) and implied in the "usable on older systems" was the fact that all features would work as they were advertised to on all of those systems. I was in full expectation that all of the features would work, and I can't possibly have been alone.
I was quite disappointed to discover that apparently hardware acceleration, which I have long been told from many sources is actually better because it offloads a lot of the processing tasks onto the video system instead of the CPU, was actually the reason why DVD playing did NOT work. I couldn't play DVDs -- if I tried I'd get a message stating that my system wasn't compatible -- even after Apple released a DVD player update! How was I supposed to fix this? "Go buy a new Powerbook". That was unacceptable given the fact that Apple had always given the impression that OS X would be fully supported on G3 systems. That apparently meant "some G3 systems" even though no qualifiers were printed on any preview materials.
I'll be returning my discs for a refund since it didn't work as advertised (which did bother me) and because I don't use OS X on that old Powerbook anymore. It's just relegated to Photoshopping in OS 9. It sounds like what I've seen so far is indicating a full refund, which I won't argue with if true
The point of this case was (rightfully) that if there are going to be exclusions for "it works with existing stuff" the exceptions need to be listed so nobody ends up disappointed like I was. It's just fair. It's a real shame there had to be a lawsuit to make it happen.
One gray night it happened: The money it came no more
:)
And SCO that corporation, it ceased its fearless roar
Board heads were bent in sorrow, their tears fell like rain
Lawyers no longer went to play in the courtroom's great domain
Without its greenbacked friends, SCO could not be brave
And so that 'mighty' corporation finally slipped into its cave
-- kudos to anyone who names that tune.
Pluses:
Cons: No major ones yet! Price: About $300 at a typical electronics store
This same set is available in other screen sizes, so if 20" is too small for you, check out the rest of the line.
Yeah, me too. ;) Though I'm from MO, not PA. But still.
(I have a friend from Pennsylvania... yes, plate pun intended)
I liked the old Keystone State plates.
I'd like to see Missouri landmarks put on our plates as an optional vanity plate. Like the Arch or something. Still, our existing plates aren't too bad, and look quite nice on my white VW.
It's dumb, but at least we don't have our website URL plastered on our license plates like Pennsylvania does. Does it surprise you that that was Tom Ridge's idea?
Oh yeah.
VW also made, back in the 60s, Microbuses with doors on both sides, thus beating the doors-on-both-sides minivans by several decades as well. They even made some sliding-door split-window buses way back then, even though most of that type had double doors on one side only. I have personally seen double-door Vanagons made for the German military, so they may even still be making those, and I saw a double-door splittie bus today, at a show.
Take that, Chrysler!
The Microbus you mention was the first real minivan. The first third-door pickup was the VW double-cab Microbus 'pickup'. These models were produced in the 1960s -- decades before Chrysler ever came up with the idea of copying.
... it outright lies and steals credit. I bristle every time I see them claim they were "first" at these things. But then ... this is capitalist America. He who lies and doesn't get caught wins because Americans are too dumb and cattle-minded to check facts.
The first Microbus was built, I believe, in 1954. The Voyager/Caravan came out when? 1980something?
Chrysler not only never takes risks
Volkswagen does similar -- but North American consumers are locked out of the customizability European buyers are offered. Volkswagen of America only offers a small range of prepackaged models while European consumers can customize the car just any way they want, and a lot of options are just unavailable here (like xenon headlamps in Golfs/Jettas, GPS nav systems, etc.)
Customized cars are not anything new -- carmakers just assume Americans don't want to customize their cars and are happy with prepackaged versions. At least in the case of many of VW's rabid loyalist fans (like myself) that's not true, and the company really needs to experiment with BTO offerings here. I bet they'd find it has more potential for profit than they think it does.
It's not. I took it to the apple store and talked to the tech there, he says it's common with these and I've tried it with more than just my stereo. It doesn't work.
Griffin refused me a refund because I didn't buy it direct from them. Apple wouldn't give me one either because it "isn't defective, it's designed that way."
Bullshit.
I bought an iTrip for use in my 2000 VW Golf GLS (no Raintronic, so no weird coating on the windshield). It doesn't work. It never has. The car's stereo can't pick it up, even if I hold the iPod up through the open sunroof so the whip antenna on the back of the car can see it directly without the sheet metal of the car in the way. I have a European radio retrofitted into the car but that should have no effect as the only difference in the FM band is that it will try to tune to even-numbered frequencies as well as odd ones. (Too bad transmitters won't broadcast on those freqs, as I guarantee no regular commercial station in the US will be licensed for an even numbered frequency.)
Anyone want to buy it? Seriously. I want to get rid of the thing. My solution is going to be hardwiring an adapter to the car's CD changer plug and adding a switch that lets me toggle between the CD changer (I got one used off another VW owner, cheap) and the RCA inputs.
And the other FM transmitter I have, a Belkin TuneCast, doesn't work either -- if a radio broadcast so much 'looks' at it crosseyed, it's static hell.
Low-power FM transmission is, in my experience, a joke and a marketing tool. It ranges from nonexistent to having more static than an interplanetary broadcast from Martians.
Supposedly the wait is just for the person in charge of that part of the code to actually respond to all the complaints and put the MNG code back in. There's nothing else holding MNG back from going in.
With the many hundreds of votes the bug has, I don't know why they can't just override the deadbeat and put it in anyway.
Not cheaper... it doesn't make rockets cost less. What it does do is allow a given rocket to carry more payload than it would be able to carry if launched from a location farther north. The equator is the idea launching spot.
That location is Korou, French Guiana. And it was chosen due to its proximity to the equator because the faster rotation of the Earth at the equator gives launchers a significant "free" boost. This is also why Soyuz rockets will begin launching from Korou soon -- they will be considerably more powerful than they are when launching from Baikonur in Kazakhstan, which is much farther north.
Florida was chosen for the US space center because launch accidents will only drop debris in the ocean rather than on populated areas (unlike Baikonur and China's launch center) and because Florida is quite far south as far as US states go.
Er.... I have a European VW stereo installed in my VW Golf because the European model has better sound and some more features and is made by Blaupunkt, a more reputable company than the original OEM manufacturer, at least to me.
I bought it online from a UK seller using a US Mastercard.
While I was in Canada, I bought a number of items using my Bank of America VISA check card. No problems there.
Seems to me like cross-border validation is working fine.
I got an HP JetDirect EX external print server from a local seller on eBay for $10.50. Then I discovered that you can still get them new for $99. I saved a lot of money, there.
The printer it's attached to is a Laserjet 4MP that is only on its second toner cartridge and is working fantastically well.
It will also work with any OS, as I'm using Mac OS X to print to it via AppleTalk, and a Windows XP Corporate (no registration crud) box to print to it via LPR. HP's site also gives instructions for configuring it for OS 8-9 and Linux -- the thing is very platform-neutral.
Errrr... why would a user remove such a part from a printer? I'm missing something here. It's not part of the toner cartridge, is it?
I'm still giggling. :) Thanks!