1) Take your lazy butt down to the store (indie record shop, Best Buy, Circuit City, etc.) buy the CD you want, and use your computer to rip the CD into MP3s (although I'd suggest you use AAC, but that's a personal preference.)
1a) If ripping a CD is too techincal for you, you could always just buy an iTMS "gift card" as the big box stores, or even your local gas station.
2) Ask P&M to give you an iTMS (is it just iTS now?) allowance so you can buy your tunes.
3) Ask P&M to take you to the bank to set up a savings acct with a Visa/MC debit card, and use that to buy your tunes.
(If P&M doesn't make sense, please go read / watch A Clockwork Orange and then you'll get it.)
First off, Apple has changed thier policy, and will not allow you at least one redownload of content after a catastrophe. It amazes me that people assume this function is there in the first place. When you buy a CD, and then you loose it / scratch it/etc., do you expect the record shop from where you purchased to replace it? Why do you think iTunes constantly reminds you to backup your content? It's your responsibility to manage your data, not Apple. As far as buying music you don't like, the same thing happens w/ CDs these days. This is one of the reasons that iTunes has a place. You can buy just the one song you're interested in, and skip the rest of the CD if you don't like it. It seem the bigger problem is with the music industry today, and the crap that's out there these days. I couldn't agree more. Hopefully iTunes, et. al. will force the record companies to rethink their stratagies, and stop pushing out crap. IMNSHO they have yet to realize that the problem with the music industry is that the current artists are putting out crappy records which is the reason for the decreases in sales.
I totaly agree. It's blatant crap like this that give legit (xbox) modders a bad name. This will probably make it harder for the guy who wants to mod _his_ xbox to run linux, XMBC, etc
Assuming you mean $10,000 for 10,000 songs. If you buy CDs w/ an averate of 15 songs on them for $9.99 at Best Buy / Circuit City, you would have at least 667 CDs, which would have cost $6663.33. In the process you be careful, and only buy from non-riaa labels, and feel good about helping out some of the artists. It might be hard, but you could do it. I fail to see why people think the only way to legitimately fill up an iPod is w/ iTMS singles.
I was on my way home to take over watching my daughter, so my wife could go into work. I was listening to the radio. The afternoon DJ is a dinosaur, who is constantly making mistakes on the air. I remember that air going completely dead, and thinking "Arthur P must be at it again." After about 30 - 45 seconds he came back on, and mentioned a power problem. About a minute later my wife called from her cell phone and said that the power was out, and the land-line phones were out (she had plugged in an older, wired phone that didn't require power.) I told her to stay calm, and keep trying to get ahold of her employer. It took another hour and a half or so for me to get home. It usually takes me about 20 minutes. When I got home, we still couldn't get ahold of her employer, but gave up, and assumed that they did not have any power. We ended up hitting the sack early (it is amazing how boring it seemed.)
We spent the next morning trying to get ice, and listening to the reports that we would be without power for at least another day. When we finally gave up on trying to get ice, we went home. That evening, we had a few people over, sat on our porch, and talked. I broke out the guitar, and played a bit of music. The next day we rounded up a few friends to come over and cook off our thawing meat. We had a big BBQ, and had a blast. The power ended up being restored that evening. All in all it was not that bad.
Well, I guess I should mention that I was lucky in being able to switch. Most of the houses in my neighborhood do not have good enough South Westerly exposure to be able to switch. I may have to do some major tree trimming in a few weeks, but we'll wait and see what happens. While I was able to switch, many in my area don't have the choice.
Free maket? In my area there is only one cable provider (Bright House Networks (formerly Time Warner),) and they are c*cky as hell. A few months ago, I switched to satellite for lower monthly costs, and a low cost TiVO. Right before I canceled my cable TV service, I received a letter stating that the rates were again going up. The justification? They were going to add some channels aboutr which I couldn't have cared less. I wonder if they will lower rates when they remove channels (e.g. when the TechTV/G4 merger is complete. I'm willing to bet that they won't. For the most part my cable modem service worked fine, but when it did, and I was a direct customer, they had no tech support outside of business hours. Near the end, I switched to Earthlink cable modem through the same cable company, $5 cheaper per month ($25 cheaper for the first 3 months,) and tech support was available 24/7 via Earthlink. When I made the switch, all of my hardware stayed the same but the cable company charged me $9 to switch the billing record. What a bunch of crap. The cable companies know they have people by the balls, and they take advantage of it.
While this has been plugged a few times on TSS on TechTV, I always got the feeling that it was not officially endorsed by TechTV. The interview w/ Mitnick was OK, but they've covered that already on TSS.
I work in a building that has very little cell phone coverage, but pagers work just fine. It would be great to go down to one device, but it just isn't feasible when the reception is so bad.
to DirecTV in mid-December. If you watch the local ads, Circuit City usually throws in an extra on top of the free system. I ended up getting a 3 room DirecTV system w/ TiVO and a free home theater in a box (AMW, not top of the line, but good enough for the small room where we have our TV,) for $99 after rebates. The quality of the signal is great. We have not had one problem.
One thing you need to ask yourself when you see the cable company spots about satelling quality is "Where does the cable company get their feed?" The answer: Satellite. The DirecTV w/ TiVo is awesome, but 40 hours is a bit low. The good thing is the Hughes box can be upgraded w/ minimal difficulty (I haven't done it yet, but weaknees has upgrade kits.)
I installed XP SP1 today, and the first thing I did after rebooting was to intsall the security patches, then Norton AV. As soon as Norton AV was installed I started getting warnings about welchia. I ran the Welchia removal tool, and then installed ZoneAlarm. Since I won't have much time to work on the machine before getting out of here for the day (and year for that matter,) I've just turned the machine off, just to be safe.
I have owned quite a few laptop bags over the years. I used to only recommend Tom Bihn bags, but recently I've switches to Brenthaven. When I first got my 15" TiBook I bought a Willow Design bag. The bag was very protective, but I was alway afraid that the internal zippers would scratch the outer case of the TiBook. I then purchased a TiBag, which I found to be too small, and because of my (xxl) size, the messenger strap kept coming loose, and the TiBook took quite a few tumbles, and the TiBag did not protect the powerbook at all. I was lucky enough to have Apple provide a Titanium 1 bag for my TiBook when I had some problems with a repair issue. These bags are the best I have ever used. When I recently replaced the TiBook w/ a 17" AlBook, I ordered the 17" shoulder case without a second thought.
I don't think the storage manufacturers have that much to worry about, as they can ship the media unformatted. The device manufacturers on the other hand may be the ones who end up shelling out the dough.
According to MacCentral, Apple will be releasing patches for 10.2. I'd be willing to bet Apple just wanted to see how much of a fuss users would make over this issue.
Agreed. I sent our Apple sales rep a message yesterday asking about patches for WebObjects deployment on MacOS X. I brought up the fact that I still have few Sun boxes, and every month I get a new patch cluster for Solaris 2.6. Apple needs to get used to the fact that they are now in the UNIX workstation business, moreso than the PC Desktop business.
Apple has released an updater for WebObjects 5.2.2 development on MacOS X, and updates for deployment on Windows and Solaris, but they only way to get WebObjects 5.2.2 deployment for OS X Server is to upgrade to 10.3 server. Apple has not officially said that they won't release the update for OS X Server 10.2, but it is it not available now, and there is no official word either way.
Well, not really, the LANceGS has been available for over three years. It works with an Enhanced ][e or IIgs, although there are no apps for the ][e that use the interface. FWIW, Apple had created an ethernet card for the IIgs to be released with System 6 (GS/OS) but killed it at the last minute so as to not have the IIgs compete with the Macintosh LC.
My current contract w/ AT&T is up in November, and they are unwilling to give me a good price to upgrade to a Sony Ericsson T616, so I'll be taking my number and going to T-Mobile. The T610 is available from them for free after rebate, and Amazon is currently offering the Jabra bluetooth headset for $19.99 when purchased with a T610.
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1) Take your lazy butt down to the store (indie record shop, Best Buy, Circuit City, etc.) buy the CD you want, and use your computer to rip the CD into MP3s (although I'd suggest you use AAC, but that's a personal preference.)
1a) If ripping a CD is too techincal for you, you could always just buy an iTMS "gift card" as the big box stores, or even your local gas station.
2) Ask P&M to give you an iTMS (is it just iTS now?) allowance so you can buy your tunes.
3) Ask P&M to take you to the bank to set up a savings acct with a Visa/MC debit card, and use that to buy your tunes.
(If P&M doesn't make sense, please go read / watch A Clockwork Orange and then you'll get it.)
First off, Apple has changed thier policy, and will not allow you at least one redownload of content after a catastrophe. It amazes me that people assume this function is there in the first place. When you buy a CD, and then you loose it / scratch it /etc., do you expect the record shop from where you purchased to replace it? Why do you think iTunes constantly reminds you to backup your content? It's your responsibility to manage your data, not Apple. As far as buying music you don't like, the same thing happens w/ CDs these days. This is one of the reasons that iTunes has a place. You can buy just the one song you're interested in, and skip the rest of the CD if you don't like it.
It seem the bigger problem is with the music industry today, and the crap that's out there these days. I couldn't agree more. Hopefully iTunes, et. al. will force the record companies to rethink their stratagies, and stop pushing out crap. IMNSHO they have yet to realize that the problem with the music industry is that the current artists are putting out crappy records which is the reason for the decreases in sales.
I totaly agree. It's blatant crap like this that give legit (xbox) modders a bad name. This will probably make it harder for the guy who wants to mod _his_ xbox to run linux, XMBC, etc
Assuming you mean $10,000 for 10,000 songs. If you buy CDs w/ an averate of 15 songs on them for $9.99 at Best Buy / Circuit City, you would have at least 667 CDs, which would have cost $6663.33. In the process you be careful, and only buy from non-riaa labels, and feel good about helping out some of the artists. It might be hard, but you could do it.
I fail to see why people think the only way to legitimately fill up an iPod is w/ iTMS singles.
This "halo effect" is part of the reason why Piper Jaffray raised thier target price for AAPL to $100 a share.
I'm willing to bet that when he was a kid he was the one who always threatened to leave the park and take his ball with him.
I've bought more CDs in the past year than I did in the previous 5 years combined!
We spent the next morning trying to get ice, and listening to the reports that we would be without power for at least another day. When we finally gave up on trying to get ice, we went home. That evening, we had a few people over, sat on our porch, and talked. I broke out the guitar, and played a bit of music. The next day we rounded up a few friends to come over and cook off our thawing meat. We had a big BBQ, and had a blast. The power ended up being restored that evening. All in all it was not that bad.
Well, I guess I should mention that I was lucky in being able to switch. Most of the houses in my neighborhood do not have good enough South Westerly exposure to be able to switch. I may have to do some major tree trimming in a few weeks, but we'll wait and see what happens. While I was able to switch, many in my area don't have the choice.
Free maket? In my area there is only one cable provider (Bright House Networks (formerly Time Warner),) and they are c*cky as hell. A few months ago, I switched to satellite for lower monthly costs, and a low cost TiVO. Right before I canceled my cable TV service, I received a letter stating that the rates were again going up. The justification? They were going to add some channels aboutr which I couldn't have cared less. I wonder if they will lower rates when they remove channels (e.g. when the TechTV/G4 merger is complete. I'm willing to bet that they won't. For the most part my cable modem service worked fine, but when it did, and I was a direct customer, they had no tech support outside of business hours. Near the end, I switched to Earthlink cable modem through the same cable company, $5 cheaper per month ($25 cheaper for the first 3 months,) and tech support was available 24/7 via Earthlink. When I made the switch, all of my hardware stayed the same but the cable company charged me $9 to switch the billing record. What a bunch of crap. The cable companies know they have people by the balls, and they take advantage of it.
While this has been plugged a few times on TSS on TechTV, I always got the feeling that it was not officially endorsed by TechTV. The interview w/ Mitnick was OK, but they've covered that already on TSS.
It wouldn't be TheBroken without Ramzi! :)
I work in a building that has very little cell phone coverage, but pagers work just fine. It would be great to go down to one device, but it just isn't feasible when the reception is so bad.
to DirecTV in mid-December. If you watch the local ads, Circuit City usually throws in an extra on top of the free system. I ended up getting a 3 room DirecTV system w/ TiVO and a free home theater in a box (AMW, not top of the line, but good enough for the small room where we have our TV,) for $99 after rebates. The quality of the signal is great. We have not had one problem.
One thing you need to ask yourself when you see the cable company spots about satelling quality is "Where does the cable company get their feed?" The answer: Satellite.
The DirecTV w/ TiVo is awesome, but 40 hours is a bit low. The good thing is the Hughes box can be upgraded w/ minimal difficulty (I haven't done it yet, but weaknees has upgrade kits.)
I installed XP SP1 today, and the first thing I did after rebooting was to intsall the security patches, then Norton AV. As soon as Norton AV was installed I started getting warnings about welchia. I ran the Welchia removal tool, and then installed ZoneAlarm. Since I won't have much time to work on the machine before getting out of here for the day (and year for that matter,) I've just turned the machine off, just to be safe.
I have owned quite a few laptop bags over the years. I used to only recommend Tom Bihn bags, but recently I've switches to Brenthaven. When I first got my 15" TiBook I bought a Willow Design bag. The bag was very protective, but I was alway afraid that the internal zippers would scratch the outer case of the TiBook. I then purchased a TiBag, which I found to be too small, and because of my (xxl) size, the messenger strap kept coming loose, and the TiBook took quite a few tumbles, and the TiBag did not protect the powerbook at all. I was lucky enough to have Apple provide a Titanium 1 bag for my TiBook when I had some problems with a repair issue. These bags are the best I have ever used. When I recently replaced the TiBook w/ a 17" AlBook, I ordered the 17" shoulder case without a second thought.
I don't think the storage manufacturers have that much to worry about, as they can ship the media unformatted. The device manufacturers on the other hand may be the ones who end up shelling out the dough.
According to MacCentral, Apple will be releasing patches for 10.2. I'd be willing to bet Apple just wanted to see how much of a fuss users would make over this issue.
Agreed. I sent our Apple sales rep a message yesterday asking about patches for WebObjects deployment on MacOS X. I brought up the fact that I still have few Sun boxes, and every month I get a new patch cluster for Solaris 2.6. Apple needs to get used to the fact that they are now in the UNIX workstation business, moreso than the PC Desktop business.
Apple has released an updater for WebObjects 5.2.2 development on MacOS X, and updates for deployment on Windows and Solaris, but they only way to get WebObjects 5.2.2 deployment for OS X Server is to upgrade to 10.3 server. Apple has not officially said that they won't release the update for OS X Server 10.2, but it is it not available now, and there is no official word either way.
Thanks for the (much deserved) smack down.
From http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/ 2003/Oct/28/applesa20031028securityu.txt (login: archives password:archives):
>The issue does not exist in earlier versions of Mac OS X or Mac OS X Server.
Well, not really, the LANceGS has been available for over three years. It works with an Enhanced ][e or IIgs, although there are no apps for the ][e that use the interface. FWIW, Apple had created an ethernet card for the IIgs to be released with System 6 (GS/OS) but killed it at the last minute so as to not have the IIgs compete with the Macintosh LC.
My current contract w/ AT&T is up in November, and they are unwilling to give me a good price to upgrade to a Sony Ericsson T616, so I'll be taking my number and going to T-Mobile. The T610 is available from them for free after rebate, and Amazon is currently offering the Jabra bluetooth headset for $19.99 when purchased with a T610.
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