Yes, more RAM helps. No need to BTO. The "putty knife" trick works like a champ (although I find it works better if you use the knife to bend back all the tines, instead of just bending the first couple and popping the rest out) and then you will have a spare stick of memory left over which you can drop into another system.
Crowded cities still get a little laggy, but with 1GB, it plays smoothly enough that I became willing to sell off my game PC (as WoW was the only remaining non-console game I find myself playing.)
Does it do as well as an Athlon tower or a G5 with a beefy bleeding-edge card? Of course not... but if you have enough memory, take the reccomended graphics settings the game selects, and then turn off the floating player-character names (which makes a huge difference in town), you will probably be fairly happy with it.
But as an offering on a premium cable channel, with extreme loads of advertising and a presentation as if it's the next coming of the Simpson's or whatever, it falls short of expectations.
Yeah, but isn't Comedy Central a channel on "basic" cable in most markets these days?
Also, aren't they the incredibly crappy channel which cancelled "Mystery Science Theater 3000" to make room for more Saturday Night Live reruns from the dreaded "middle years"?
I don't have cable myself, nor have I seen an entire episode of ATHF, but I would not be in the least bit surprised to learn that it's one of Comedy Central's most popular flagship programs.
Cable syndication is really only a tiny step up from flash cartoons on the Internet, after all. I would be willing to bet that Homestar Runner gets almost as many weekly viewers as the Lifetime network does.
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Some people use music, art and clothing as some symbolic code to represent to "the other" who they really are. They derive no comfort or pleasure from these things except in the constant public adjustment and realignment of the hierarchy.
Install the Flash plugin for Firefox and visit his site. You might find his stuff entertaining and amusing.
"Fett's Vette" and "Robotussin" both hold places of honor in my iPod playlists.
My questions for mc cris:
1. Seeing as it is clear that you will never clear the rights to release "Life's a Bitch and I'm Her Pimp" as a comercial product, and no longer host most of the songs on your site would you be willing to allow somebody to get their grubby hands on them and host them as torrent files? Some of us jumped on the bandwagon a little to late to get our hands on all those songs.
2. Any chance of your newer songs becoming available on iTMS?
Agreed. Any Media Center buyer considering the Mac mini needs to tack on $100 to their estimate, as the best available solution for TOSLINK 5.1 audio on the mini is a USB pass-through box (the M-Audio Sonica Home Theater) which costs about a C-note.
Neat idea, but I recently read a review stating that the Mini (at least the base version) lacked the processing testicular fortitude to be a full-blown media center.
That's funny.
My Mac mini (the 1.42 version) is currently providing HDTV PVR functions (via the EyeTV 500), DVD movies, Other MPEG movies via VLC, music via iTunes, and wide-screen World of Warcraft, all while hosting my personal web page in the background.
In spite of EyeTV's box specs claiming that full-frame HD requires a dual-G5 tower, the mini seems to be handling it without a hitch. I even recorded some prime-time HDTV wide-screen broadcasts onto the mini's internal drive, and was able to watch them in full-screen mode with no trouble at all.
Not bad for a $600 computer with no mods other than a single 1GB stick of after-market RAM in it.
You're not supposed to stack them anyway, because it interferes with the optical drive on top and the cooling system on the bottom.
You stack the top one upside-down, and the one after that right-side up, and so on. That way, you never put pressure on the drive (the weight is supported by the metal sides of the case and the rubber "foot" at the base) and you never interfere with air intake flow. Judging by the way these puppies are put together, I bet you could almost go floor-to-ceiling with them like that without any problems.
OK, people, the fact that there are headers on the motherboard do not mean that things were going to be inside the case!
My motherboard has somewhere around 5 USB headers all over it, and they're there to plug in to case-mounted usb ports, not to some internal USB keyboard!
Post like this from AC's are the reason why I still read at 0.
"Was the Mac mini Intended to Have an iPod Dock?"
No. The empty slot just a redundant part on a re-purposed motherboard. Does nobody remember the notorious "mezzanine" mystery header on the original iMac?
I haven't been in a chain record store in a long, lone time, but as I recall, the hot new albums by MTV bands are actually cheaper than "my favorite fucked-up indie stuff." I don't know why exactly that is
Loss leaders.
Best Buy or whoever gets you in the door by selling a few of the latest movies and/or hit albums at or under their wholesale cost. The hope is that, while you are there buying the Return of the King Special Edition DVD for $22, you will spot that digital camera or firewire drive or iPod or whatever that you've been thinking of getting, and buy it there at full price instead of sitting at home trying to find the best deal on Pricewatch.
Except that I don't almost wish it didn't have breasts.
DOA3 is my favorite fighting game (yes, I like it even better than Soul Calibur II), and I don't give a rat's ass if other people might assume that the "jiggle factor" is the only appeal.
Mind you, DOAX is pure soft-core pr0n. It's a Japanese dating sim with a volleyball game attached to it. It's a good volleyball game, but there's no question that the real appeal of it is gawking at all the purdy cartoon girls while disposable pop music plays in the background.
DOAX was a crass exploitation of women who don't even exist for the sake of shameless titilation... and the best console game in the universe.
Come to think of it, forget DOA4... when is DOAX2 coming out?
I love reading about mob history, especially as it relates to record labels, labor unions, and other "legitimate" businesses. Thanks. I gotta get my hands on those two books now.
I'm so glad the copy-protected CD fad finally died the death it so richly deserved. Not being a fan of a lot of top-40 stuff, I only ran into it once myself. My Mac would eat my Mono Puff disk every single time I tried to rip it. I managed to work around it and finally get it loaded into my iPod, but what a hassle. Amusingly enough, the name of the album in question was It's Fun to Steal.
That under all the low self-esteem and jiggles, DOA Volleyball had an extremely simple, but robust interface, and is probably the best volleyball game out there.
Best of all, it's a great volleyball game that comes with low self-esteem and jiggles! You can play that game for hours on end and never get bored with it.... er... or so I've heard.
Cage later stated that the specific durations of the movements were not important.
He only said that because he accidentally published it with the movements being of different lengths, yet still adding up to exactly 4'33", which seems to indicate that his clame of note-for-note composition was little more than marketing spin.
In other words, one is free to perform 4'33" at any time, for any duration, for one's own, or someone else's entertainment or interest.
You are confusing 4'33" with 0'0", which was a later work he "composed," which consisted of actively listening to one's environment in any context for any druration. 4'33" is always performed by one instrument, and always for four minutes and thirty-three seconds.
Apparently you are unfamiliar with brand-marketing. It isn't necessarily database-driven (although you will be exposed to advertising for different brands depending on what databases you are in) per-person pricing, but it the end results is broadly the same.
Really? And how did Toyota manage to drive up the price of my Ford Crown Victoria through brand marketing?
Targeted ads are nothing close to what we are talking about here: Charging two different prices to two different customers for the exact same product based on individual identity.
The only organization I can think of which does that is the government. They provide the same services to everybody (Fire, Police, Military, a modicum of insurance against poverty, etc.) but charge high-income earners more money. Then again, the government can put their customers in jail for not paying income taxes. The record companies may think of themselves as powerful, but not that powerful.
Yes, but as useful as it is to see how wrong-headed Ayn Rand was, it was also useful to see how wrong-headed some of her angriest critics turned out to be.
Her work can be shot down from a lot of angles, as she pissed off both Religious groups and Marxists in nearly equal measure.
When both Oral Roberts and Ed Bagley consider a writer's ideas to be dangerous, I tend to sit up and take notice. I may not agree with her, in fact I think she was a bit of crackpot, but we have enemies in common.
Come to think of it, my relationship with the writing of Hunter S. Thompson is much the same...
Meh. Once the dust settles and the lawyers go home, I'm sure you'll end up seeing the Beatles catalog on iTMS.
IIRC, Michael Jackson owns a big chunk of the Beatles music, so I'm kind of hoping Apple drags this out for a few months to avoid having to make a huge payment to the Michael Jackson Child-Molestation Defense Fund.
Did you ever think that maybe he does think the iBook looked girly?
Nope.
Did you ever think that maybe, just maybe he really did think that MS could kill Linux?
Nope.
He's not that big of an idiot. His columns smack of being way too carefully calculated to inflame fanboys. I only provided two examples, but you can grab just about any column from him in the last five years and find fuel for the fire. It's what he does, and he's good at it. I just marvel at the fact that it still works sometimes. I guess this truly is the Semptember that never ended.
No, I'm not trusting anybody to do anything. I'm saying that they are trying to negotiate for something they want, and big download distributors like Apple & Walmart can say, "okay, but here's what we want from you if you want that."
These records labels are finding themselves not in the driver's seat anymore. That's why they are in, as you say, a panic.
That is, they could figure out that you like that "fucked-up indie" stuff, and so charge you $4 for it, whereas if I think it is merely OK they might only ask $0.50 from me.
Not a problem. Before I even read the rest of your post it occurred to me that I just form a co-op with about 50 other people of diverse tastes (including their teenaged star-obsessed kids), and we buy music for each other based on who gets the best deal.
Also, I could go out of my way to buy a balanced mix of genres, and then share my personal pricing data with a small group of black teens who happen specialized tastes, and find that they have to pay eight times as much for their favorite songs as I do. Then I can sit back and watch the discrimination lawsuits shred the industry to ribbons.
Pricing tweaked to the customer has not been accomplished in any other industry, what makes your prof so sure they could pull it off?
Except iTMS is becoming a distribution chain that puts the little guys on nearly-equal footing.
A couple weeks ago, I downloaded an album by California artist Mari Iijima. She's a former J-Pop star who's currently living in the US and putting stuff out on her own tiny label (mostly in English.) IMHO, the music she makes these days are leaps and bounds better than the stuff she used to record as a Japanese teen idol years ago... and almost nobody outside of the SF bay area seems to know about her.
Skim through other people's "iMix" lists and you can discover all kinds of gems like this.
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you can download the entirity of 'Lifes A Bitch And I'm Her Pimp'
Really? Sweet. Obviously I need to visit his site again when I'm home from the office! Last time I looked, it was mostly not available.
I humbly withdraw question 1.
My other question, regarding iTMS and his more recent "for sale" stuff, stands.
Yes, more RAM helps. No need to BTO. The "putty knife" trick works like a champ (although I find it works better if you use the knife to bend back all the tines, instead of just bending the first couple and popping the rest out) and then you will have a spare stick of memory left over which you can drop into another system.
Crowded cities still get a little laggy, but with 1GB, it plays smoothly enough that I became willing to sell off my game PC (as WoW was the only remaining non-console game I find myself playing.)
Does it do as well as an Athlon tower or a G5 with a beefy bleeding-edge card? Of course not... but if you have enough memory, take the reccomended graphics settings the game selects, and then turn off the floating player-character names (which makes a huge difference in town), you will probably be fairly happy with it.
I fully expect some goofy hacks for this one, too.
But as an offering on a premium cable channel, with extreme loads of advertising and a presentation as if it's the next coming of the Simpson's or whatever, it falls short of expectations.
Yeah, but isn't Comedy Central a channel on "basic" cable in most markets these days?
Also, aren't they the incredibly crappy channel which cancelled "Mystery Science Theater 3000" to make room for more Saturday Night Live reruns from the dreaded "middle years"?
And aren't they the channel which put another cheap-assed indie Internet comic on the air, with tremendous success?
I don't have cable myself, nor have I seen an entire episode of ATHF, but I would not be in the least bit surprised to learn that it's one of Comedy Central's most popular flagship programs.
Cable syndication is really only a tiny step up from flash cartoons on the Internet, after all. I would be willing to bet that Homestar Runner gets almost as many weekly viewers as the Lifetime network does.
Some people use music, art and clothing as some symbolic code to represent to "the other" who they really are. They derive no comfort or pleasure from these things except in the constant public adjustment and realignment of the hierarchy.
/. FAQ.
They are also known as posers.
Dude, that belongs in the
Don't be a hayta, d00d.
Install the Flash plugin for Firefox and visit his site. You might find his stuff entertaining and amusing.
"Fett's Vette" and "Robotussin" both hold places of honor in my iPod playlists.
My questions for mc cris:
1. Seeing as it is clear that you will never clear the rights to release "Life's a Bitch and I'm Her Pimp" as a comercial product, and no longer host most of the songs on your site would you be willing to allow somebody to get their grubby hands on them and host them as torrent files? Some of us jumped on the bandwagon a little to late to get our hands on all those songs.
2. Any chance of your newer songs becoming available on iTMS?
Agreed. Any Media Center buyer considering the Mac mini needs to tack on $100 to their estimate, as the best available solution for TOSLINK 5.1 audio on the mini is a USB pass-through box (the M-Audio Sonica Home Theater) which costs about a C-note.
Neat idea, but I recently read a review stating that the Mini (at least the base version) lacked the processing testicular fortitude to be a full-blown media center.
That's funny.
My Mac mini (the 1.42 version) is currently providing HDTV PVR functions (via the EyeTV 500), DVD movies, Other MPEG movies via VLC, music via iTunes, and wide-screen World of Warcraft, all while hosting my personal web page in the background.
In spite of EyeTV's box specs claiming that full-frame HD requires a dual-G5 tower, the mini seems to be handling it without a hitch. I even recorded some prime-time HDTV wide-screen broadcasts onto the mini's internal drive, and was able to watch them in full-screen mode with no trouble at all.
Not bad for a $600 computer with no mods other than a single 1GB stick of after-market RAM in it.
You're not supposed to stack them anyway, because it interferes with the optical drive on top and the cooling system on the bottom.
You stack the top one upside-down, and the one after that right-side up, and so on. That way, you never put pressure on the drive (the weight is supported by the metal sides of the case and the rubber "foot" at the base) and you never interfere with air intake flow. Judging by the way these puppies are put together, I bet you could almost go floor-to-ceiling with them like that without any problems.
OK, people, the fact that there are headers on the motherboard do not mean that things were going to be inside the case!
My motherboard has somewhere around 5 USB headers all over it, and they're there to plug in to case-mounted usb ports, not to some internal USB keyboard!
Post like this from AC's are the reason why I still read at 0.
"Was the Mac mini Intended to Have an iPod Dock?"
No. The empty slot just a redundant part on a re-purposed motherboard. Does nobody remember the notorious "mezzanine" mystery header on the original iMac?
I haven't been in a chain record store in a long, lone time, but as I recall, the hot new albums by MTV bands are actually cheaper than "my favorite fucked-up indie stuff." I don't know why exactly that is
Loss leaders.
Best Buy or whoever gets you in the door by selling a few of the latest movies and/or hit albums at or under their wholesale cost. The hope is that, while you are there buying the Return of the King Special Edition DVD for $22, you will spot that digital camera or firewire drive or iPod or whatever that you've been thinking of getting, and buy it there at full price instead of sitting at home trying to find the best deal on Pricewatch.
I'm with you.
Except that I don't almost wish it didn't have breasts.
DOA3 is my favorite fighting game (yes, I like it even better than Soul Calibur II), and I don't give a rat's ass if other people might assume that the "jiggle factor" is the only appeal.
Mind you, DOAX is pure soft-core pr0n. It's a Japanese dating sim with a volleyball game attached to it. It's a good volleyball game, but there's no question that the real appeal of it is gawking at all the purdy cartoon girls while disposable pop music plays in the background.
DOAX was a crass exploitation of women who don't even exist for the sake of shameless titilation... and the best console game in the universe.
Come to think of it, forget DOA4... when is DOAX2 coming out?
I love reading about mob history, especially as it relates to record labels, labor unions, and other "legitimate" businesses. Thanks. I gotta get my hands on those two books now.
I'm so glad the copy-protected CD fad finally died the death it so richly deserved. Not being a fan of a lot of top-40 stuff, I only ran into it once myself. My Mac would eat my Mono Puff disk every single time I tried to rip it. I managed to work around it and finally get it loaded into my iPod, but what a hassle. Amusingly enough, the name of the album in question was It's Fun to Steal.
That under all the low self-esteem and jiggles, DOA Volleyball had an extremely simple, but robust interface, and is probably the best volleyball game out there.
... er... or so I've heard.
Best of all, it's a great volleyball game that comes with low self-esteem and jiggles! You can play that game for hours on end and never get bored with it.
Cage later stated that the specific durations of the movements were not important.
He only said that because he accidentally published it with the movements being of different lengths, yet still adding up to exactly 4'33", which seems to indicate that his clame of note-for-note composition was little more than marketing spin.
In other words, one is free to perform 4'33" at any time, for any duration, for one's own, or someone else's entertainment or interest.
You are confusing 4'33" with 0'0", which was a later work he "composed," which consisted of actively listening to one's environment in any context for any druration. 4'33" is always performed by one instrument, and always for four minutes and thirty-three seconds.
Not really. My point still applies to allofmp3.com customers, even if the parent post was not among the many examples of them in these threads.
Apparently you are unfamiliar with brand-marketing. It isn't necessarily database-driven (although you will be exposed to advertising for different brands depending on what databases you are in) per-person pricing, but it the end results is broadly the same.
Really? And how did Toyota manage to drive up the price of my Ford Crown Victoria through brand marketing?
Targeted ads are nothing close to what we are talking about here: Charging two different prices to two different customers for the exact same product based on individual identity.
The only organization I can think of which does that is the government. They provide the same services to everybody (Fire, Police, Military, a modicum of insurance against poverty, etc.) but charge high-income earners more money. Then again, the government can put their customers in jail for not paying income taxes. The record companies may think of themselves as powerful, but not that powerful.
Yes, but as useful as it is to see how wrong-headed Ayn Rand was, it was also useful to see how wrong-headed some of her angriest critics turned out to be.
Her work can be shot down from a lot of angles, as she pissed off both Religious groups and Marxists in nearly equal measure.
When both Oral Roberts and Ed Bagley consider a writer's ideas to be dangerous, I tend to sit up and take notice. I may not agree with her, in fact I think she was a bit of crackpot, but we have enemies in common.
Come to think of it, my relationship with the writing of Hunter S. Thompson is much the same...
Meh. Once the dust settles and the lawyers go home, I'm sure you'll end up seeing the Beatles catalog on iTMS.
IIRC, Michael Jackson owns a big chunk of the Beatles music, so I'm kind of hoping Apple drags this out for a few months to avoid having to make a huge payment to the Michael Jackson Child-Molestation Defense Fund.
Did you ever think that maybe he does think the iBook looked girly?
Nope.
Did you ever think that maybe, just maybe he really did think that MS could kill Linux?
Nope.
He's not that big of an idiot. His columns smack of being way too carefully calculated to inflame fanboys. I only provided two examples, but you can grab just about any column from him in the last five years and find fuel for the fire. It's what he does, and he's good at it. I just marvel at the fact that it still works sometimes. I guess this truly is the Semptember that never ended.
No, I'm not trusting anybody to do anything. I'm saying that they are trying to negotiate for something they want, and big download distributors like Apple & Walmart can say, "okay, but here's what we want from you if you want that."
These records labels are finding themselves not in the driver's seat anymore. That's why they are in, as you say, a panic.
That is, they could figure out that you like that "fucked-up indie" stuff, and so charge you $4 for it, whereas if I think it is merely OK they might only ask $0.50 from me.
Not a problem. Before I even read the rest of your post it occurred to me that I just form a co-op with about 50 other people of diverse tastes (including their teenaged star-obsessed kids), and we buy music for each other based on who gets the best deal.
Also, I could go out of my way to buy a balanced mix of genres, and then share my personal pricing data with a small group of black teens who happen specialized tastes, and find that they have to pay eight times as much for their favorite songs as I do. Then I can sit back and watch the discrimination lawsuits shred the industry to ribbons.
Pricing tweaked to the customer has not been accomplished in any other industry, what makes your prof so sure they could pull it off?
Except iTMS is becoming a distribution chain that puts the little guys on nearly-equal footing.
A couple weeks ago, I downloaded an album by California artist Mari Iijima. She's a former J-Pop star who's currently living in the US and putting stuff out on her own tiny label (mostly in English.) IMHO, the music she makes these days are leaps and bounds better than the stuff she used to record as a Japanese teen idol years ago... and almost nobody outside of the SF bay area seems to know about her.
Skim through other people's "iMix" lists and you can discover all kinds of gems like this.
Swell, another allofmp3.com buyer...
Off the top of my head, I can't think of anything dumber than paying money to steal music.
Do you go out of your way to shop for hot cars, too?
Sure have screwdriver marks all over the ignition switch, but they often come with a fresh new coat of paint! What a bargain!