What you describe is the electronics market of yesterday. Today, Sony devices of all types are plugging into the PCs. The iPod's a music device... that's also a front end to a software program and an online store. We also have Sony car stereos that download Sony label songs from your computer onto its own hard drive via 802.11x. PC-based DVRs are in its early stages.
Most Mac TOSLink cables are getting plugged into Sony receivers to play music from Sony lables and movies from Sony-owned studios. If you buy a Mac instead of a Sony PVR, or an iPod instead of a Sony Walkman, they still make lots of money off you.
I own the previous X-Box, and I'm still waiting for the PS3 before I make up my mind about which next-gen console I want to buy. I'm sure I'm not the only one, especially when actually getting a 360 is about as challenging as getting a really good margarita in Kuwait.
I love my Apple-centric media room, don't get me wrong, but Apple makes two things: computers and MP3 players.
Okay, and now a crappy $300 stereo for the den.
Sony is a player in almost every personal electronics market there is, with the possible exception of "massage wand" marital aids. They can afford to lag behind in one or two market segments for a few years and bounce back.
I'm not an electrical engineer, so I dunno why the light defaults to green. If the light could be programmed to default to anything, it should default to amber, and once it's figured out the battery is charged, default to green.
It's amber while charging.
Plug it in, and it tests the battery before doing anything. A second or two later, it concludes that the battery needs charging, starts charging it, and the LED changes from green to amber. What's so hard?
I thought Fargo was hilarious. My favorite scene is the old tavern owner talking to the cop while sweeping his driveway.
Besides, the director is "one of us." Minnesotans have blank-check permission to make fun of Minnesota. Just ask Garrison Keillor. Making fun of his rural(ish) Minnesota up-bringing has been his bread and butter for decades now, and everybody up here loves the guy. (IIRC, he's originally from Anoka, an outlying suburb about an hour's drive from the metro area.)
Do you think we would take that kind of crap from him if he was from LA or even Chicago? He'd be pelted with lutefisk, don'tcha know.
His question was that IF this had been done by the democrats would all the people (presumably republican supporters) who are saying this is NOT A BIG DEAL still argue this or would it suddenly become a BIG WRONG?
Right, because none of the people who are pointing out that this isn't a big deal could possibly be democrats with a sense of perspective. 100% of those who express an opinion are merely echoing the sentiment of "their side" in the food-fight that is modern politics.
I'm neither a Republican nor a Democrat (I was a big Tim Penny guy in the last election... alas, one of the few), but I am a Minnesotan.
My verdict: It was really stupid to do, but not a big deal.
we have some of the worst metro traffic in the nation.
Holy crap, you've clearly never lived in a city with REAL traffic problems, because the Twin Cities is far from the worst.
I drive from Bloomington (Southwest of the Minneapolis-St. Paul metro area) to Roseville (Northeast of the metro area) every morning by going THROUGH the heart of Minneapolis every morning, and back every afternoon. 30 minutes both ways, through peak rush-hour traffic.
That sort of thing is unheard-of in other metro areas of similar size.
I could be mistaken but I believe the state's biology education goals are more intelligent design friendly than some.
You are mistaken. Minnesota is not Kansas. Fundamentalism is a tiny minory in this state, and creationism (in all its flavors) is openly mocked around here. I never even meet a person who had a problem with evolution in the schools until I spent some time down south.
Minnesota progressives have nobody to blame but themselves.
After all, they were the ones who desperately wanted Minneapolis to be seen as a "world class city" and have pushed for theaters, museums, rail lines, sports stadiums, high-density housing, new shopping developments, a mega-mall just outside the airport, HUGE bail-outs of a major airline with a hub in the area, and anything else that would help the metro area grow, grow, grow by attracting people from other parts of the country.
Well, people came, and (surprise surprise), they don't all look, act, and think like Garrison Keillor. Some of them even dare to think Swedish-style socialism is a bad idea. Suddenly Roger Moe, who once aspired to be governor, has about as much power and influence as a typical school board member.
Proving once again that the Law of Unintended Consequences is, and always has been, utterly lost on Minnesota progressives.
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Kind of like the line Yogi Berra once said about his favorite restaurant:
Gross generalizations... don't usually work out too well
Mmmmm! Smell the irony! Delicious.
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I liked City of Heroes a lot before I got rid of my Windows PC.
I've been playing WoW on my Mac, but I'm getting bored with it now, and may cancel my account soon.
I doubt I'll go out of my way to find another MMORPG. These days, I find I enjoy the brief distraction of console games over the level grind of computer RPGs.
Could be anybody, for all I would know. I tend to prefer the BSD license anyway. Most (not all) people know that Stallman came up with the first one. That doesn't mean that everybody knows he's still the one maintaining it. Were I writing the summary, I probably would have bothered to include that info. It's just good journalism.
Given that the order page specifically says that they are 7200 drives, and they can get sued if they deliver anything else, I'd say it's a good bet that they are 7200 drives.
As for music software, there's plenty of good DAW software for around the $100 mark (Cubase SE, Traktor, etc) and some hardware (which you'll need anyway) comes with lite versions of pro level packages like Reason or Ableton. Any of these will give GarageBand a very good run for it's money.
Speaking as somebody who has used every last audio program you list there (as well as the full "pro" version of some of them), I can only say that I completely disagree. GarageBand is leaps and bounds ahead of any of them, and I would never even consider switching back to any of them.
Learn to read, ass. I said Apple's stand-alone screens (which the GP post priced out) are vastly superior the screen on the Dell laptop we were comparing to.
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What you describe is the electronics market of yesterday. Today, Sony devices of all types are plugging into the PCs. The iPod's a music device... that's also a front end to a software program and an online store. We also have Sony car stereos that download Sony label songs from your computer onto its own hard drive via 802.11x. PC-based DVRs are in its early stages.
Most Mac TOSLink cables are getting plugged into Sony receivers to play music from Sony lables and movies from Sony-owned studios. If you buy a Mac instead of a Sony PVR, or an iPod instead of a Sony Walkman, they still make lots of money off you.
And a somewhat expensive but easy to use HTPC for the living room?
I already said "computers." And that was after mentioning that a Mac runs my media room. Sheesh, pay attention.
I think that rather then split up, they need to do the opposite.
If they get their company to work together better, they become the 800-pound gorilla that they are naturally set up to be.
I dunno.
I own the previous X-Box, and I'm still waiting for the PS3 before I make up my mind about which next-gen console I want to buy. I'm sure I'm not the only one, especially when actually getting a 360 is about as challenging as getting a really good margarita in Kuwait.
I love my Apple-centric media room, don't get me wrong, but Apple makes two things: computers and MP3 players.
Okay, and now a crappy $300 stereo for the den.
Sony is a player in almost every personal electronics market there is, with the possible exception of "massage wand" marital aids. They can afford to lag behind in one or two market segments for a few years and bounce back.
Solution:
Use paid shills for "audience members." They carefully write what will be found on the bullets shown at the end.
Done.
I'm not an electrical engineer, so I dunno why the light defaults to green. If the light could be programmed to default to anything, it should default to amber, and once it's figured out the battery is charged, default to green.
It's amber while charging.
Plug it in, and it tests the battery before doing anything. A second or two later, it concludes that the battery needs charging, starts charging it, and the LED changes from green to amber. What's so hard?
Actually, it's the art of paper folding, not the folded paper itself.
Oh, hold on... that's what it is in Japanese, but Dictionary.com also accepts your way, so I guess in English, it's all good.
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=origami
I thought Fargo was hilarious. My favorite scene is the old tavern owner talking to the cop while sweeping his driveway.
Besides, the director is "one of us." Minnesotans have blank-check permission to make fun of Minnesota. Just ask Garrison Keillor. Making fun of his rural(ish) Minnesota up-bringing has been his bread and butter for decades now, and everybody up here loves the guy. (IIRC, he's originally from Anoka, an outlying suburb about an hour's drive from the metro area.)
Do you think we would take that kind of crap from him if he was from LA or even Chicago? He'd be pelted with lutefisk, don'tcha know.
3. Make the students do all the work.
Some of them want to be BOFHs someday. What better way to learn than to build and maintain the school's educational computer resources?
Re-read my post. Say it out loud as if you're a cast member from the movie Fargo. Then turn your sarcasm detector on.
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You didn't have to explain anything, but it appears I did.
Oh, jeez! Nobody talks like that up here, y'know. You're just rehashing old stereotypes. What do you gotta go and do that for? Uff-da!
His question was that IF this had been done by the democrats would all the people (presumably republican supporters) who are saying this is NOT A BIG DEAL still argue this or would it suddenly become a BIG WRONG?
Right, because none of the people who are pointing out that this isn't a big deal could possibly be democrats with a sense of perspective. 100% of those who express an opinion are merely echoing the sentiment of "their side" in the food-fight that is modern politics.
I'm neither a Republican nor a Democrat (I was a big Tim Penny guy in the last election... alas, one of the few), but I am a Minnesotan.
My verdict: It was really stupid to do, but not a big deal.
we have some of the worst metro traffic in the nation.
Holy crap, you've clearly never lived in a city with REAL traffic problems, because the Twin Cities is far from the worst.
I drive from Bloomington (Southwest of the Minneapolis-St. Paul metro area) to Roseville (Northeast of the metro area) every morning by going THROUGH the heart of Minneapolis every morning, and back every afternoon. 30 minutes both ways, through peak rush-hour traffic.
That sort of thing is unheard-of in other metro areas of similar size.
I could be mistaken but I believe the state's biology education goals are more intelligent design friendly than some.
You are mistaken. Minnesota is not Kansas. Fundamentalism is a tiny minory in this state, and creationism (in all its flavors) is openly mocked around here. I never even meet a person who had a problem with evolution in the schools until I spent some time down south.
Minnesota progressives have nobody to blame but themselves.
After all, they were the ones who desperately wanted Minneapolis to be seen as a "world class city" and have pushed for theaters, museums, rail lines, sports stadiums, high-density housing, new shopping developments, a mega-mall just outside the airport, HUGE bail-outs of a major airline with a hub in the area, and anything else that would help the metro area grow, grow, grow by attracting people from other parts of the country.
Well, people came, and (surprise surprise), they don't all look, act, and think like Garrison Keillor. Some of them even dare to think Swedish-style socialism is a bad idea. Suddenly Roger Moe, who once aspired to be governor, has about as much power and influence as a typical school board member.
Proving once again that the Law of Unintended Consequences is, and always has been, utterly lost on Minnesota progressives.
Kind of like the line Yogi Berra once said about his favorite restaurant:
"Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded."
Gross generalizations ... don't usually work out too well
Mmmmm! Smell the irony! Delicious.
I liked City of Heroes a lot before I got rid of my Windows PC.
I've been playing WoW on my Mac, but I'm getting bored with it now, and may cancel my account soon.
I doubt I'll go out of my way to find another MMORPG. These days, I find I enjoy the brief distraction of console games over the level grind of computer RPGs.
Who the FUCK do you think wrote GPL3?
Could be anybody, for all I would know. I tend to prefer the BSD license anyway. Most (not all) people know that Stallman came up with the first one. That doesn't mean that everybody knows he's still the one maintaining it. Were I writing the summary, I probably would have bothered to include that info. It's just good journalism.
The "learn more" page with 7200 rpm must be in error
It was. They fixed it today.
Strike all that. They edited their order page to read 5400.
It's still a step up from the old mini, which spun at 4500.
Given that the order page specifically says that they are 7200 drives, and they can get sued if they deliver anything else, I'd say it's a good bet that they are 7200 drives.
audio editor - audacity (free)
If you feel Audacity is worth comparing to GarageBand, we don't even have a foundation to begin a discussion.
As for music software, there's plenty of good DAW software for around the $100 mark (Cubase SE, Traktor, etc) and some hardware (which you'll need anyway) comes with lite versions of pro level packages like Reason or Ableton. Any of these will give GarageBand a very good run for it's money.
Speaking as somebody who has used every last audio program you list there (as well as the full "pro" version of some of them), I can only say that I completely disagree. GarageBand is leaps and bounds ahead of any of them, and I would never even consider switching back to any of them.
IMHO, YMMV, yadda yadda yadda.
Learn to read, ass. I said Apple's stand-alone screens (which the GP post priced out) are vastly superior the screen on the Dell laptop we were comparing to.