Provided iTunes is running, it starts ripping a CD into the library as soon as a CD is inserted.
iTunes asks you first, with the option of making your decision to rip the CD (or not) your default behavior. It doesn't assume.
And as soon as the iPod is connected, the files will get transferred to it.
iTunes asks you first, with the option of making your decision to automatically transfers songs to the iPod the CD (or not) your default behavior. It doesn't assume.
Spoken like a true nerd - it would be dazzling and shiny and a technological marvel and completely impractical to actually play football on. Lights shining up from the ground into the players' faces? Weird backlighting making aerial photography a pain? Dizzying and confusing end-zone images?
All just to spend millions of dollars in new and uninvented tech to fix a problem that a gardener with a roll of astroturf with "GATORS!" written on it and a rake have been solving for 15 bucks an hour for decades.
This entire thread should be marked -1, offtopic - this isn't about women being allowed to breast-feed their children in public. This is about women choosing to post picture of themselves breastfeeding on a public forum.
This is about facebook's take on public decency and their implementation of those standards. Any argument about the legality of breastfeeding in public is a red herring - If the women in question don't post these pictures, their children don't go hungry.
Ever been on the phone with somebody who was surfing the net, and you realized that they weren't really listening to you, and when you called them on it they completely denied that they weren't not paying you attention when you knew damn well they were preoccupied?
Maybe you young whippersnappers can multitask better than I can at my creaky age (creaky technologically, anyway), but being in a conversation with someone who receives and replies to a text message more often than not stops the verbal conversation dead in its tracks until the message is sent. Maybe I'm old-fashioned or something, but I find it more rude than just stepping away for a two minute phone conversation because then, at least, there isn't the pretense that you and the person you're talking to have each other's complete attention.
The only limitations should be use of anti-virus software and other protections so that they cannot hurt the network at the school when attached to it.
Brilliant. Absolutely fucking brilliant. That says, "At school, our network, our rules. At home, your parents' network, their rules." I don't like the idea of a school district controlling what a kid does outside the building, and that solves the problem beautifully.
In most big cities, either the whole city is served by one ISP or the ISPs service areas of the city by neighborhood. When I lived in New York City, the only way for me to get a different cable/ISP was to move - I didn't have good sightlines for satellite and I was too far from the switching station to be served by fiber. My choice was literally Cablevision or dialup. That was in Brooklyn; in Manhattan, it was Time Warner or dialup. You buy in to the monopoly, you deal without internet access or you mooch off your neighbors.
I don't live in NYC any more, but I still live in a fairly large east-coast city (population of 100,000 or so) - my choice in ISP here is Comcast or... it's the same damn thing.
Point being, city size has nothing to do with it.
There's a video up on the referenced website, and it's freakin' hilarious - there are 20-30 kids seated at computers and wearing headsets and playing around in a virtual world, completely ignoring the fact that, if they took the computers away, they'd be sitting in a room with 19-29 other students who could easily pose the same arguments and take on the same personalities IN PERSON. It's called Model UN, and it's been going on in high schools for at least a decade. The selling feature of this thing looks to be that it's happening in a virtual world that looks sorta like the conference rooms in the real world where decisions were made about Hurricane Mitch, and that you can make your avatars look like the real-life politicians involved.
The internet is not and should never be a replacement for exercising an imagination. I can't help but shake the feeling that somebody needed to justify a shiny new computer lab and this is what they came up with.
I'm guessing you were never in Model UN in high school - this looks to be exactly like that, but with a glossy, Second Life sheen.
It could be fun if it were done correctly or at least be educational, but this looks like it'll end poorly. I fail to see why getting kids into a room, assigning them characters and responsibilities and letting them argue with each other needs to have an OMG TEH INTERNETS MAEK AWESOME component to it.
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The purpose of the evening news, at a fundamental level, is to supply its viewership with, in order:
sports
weather
traffic
...all of which is used to fulfill a government requirement that at least some portion of a network's broadcast time is spent to benefit society in exchange for us leasing the spectrum to them for, effectively, free.
You'll notice that those three things (sports, traffic and weather) go at the end of the broadcast to force you, FORCE YOU, to watch the first 15 minutes of programming. Those fifteen minutes of airtime contain
international news
local news
"investigative reporting" segments
...most of which are used as tags in commercials to get you to watch.
If the networks had their way (not the News Directors themselves who are, by and large, overstressed and well-meaning people in the service of two obnoxiously loud masters - the network and the people) I'll bet you a bajillion dollars that they would replace as much of their news programming as they could get away with with reruns of Seinfeld and The Simpsons, throw a ticker up on the screen of Reuter's headlines for a minute or two every hour all day long and call it a public benefit.
If you look at a Big Mac ad (assuming they actually show the burger these days; it's getting rarer and rarer) you'll see that the things on the burger in the ad match up to the things on the burger in the stores. They can make the components of the thing look as appetizing as all hell when in reality it's made my a teenager in a polyester shirt and stupid hat who couldn't care less about their job, but they can't say the thing has mushrooms on it when it doesn't; they can't say it's bigger than it really is; they can't say it will cure cancer.
The Apple ad straddled a very fine line - its intent, so far as I can see, was to demonstrate the features of the phone in as expedient a fashion as possible - it can go online! It can play music! Etc.! The problem is, the ad was talking about the speed of the network and the speed of the interface making "the internet" faster, which to most people means something less complicated that what it means to nerds, and it was skipping over some steps.
Apple effectively claimed their phone could do something it couldn't. Not blatantly and not specifically, but the way it's used in the ad makes it look like, well, like magic to somebody who doesn't know better. Apple isn't claiming that their phone cures cancer in other words, but they are claiming it might make you feel more comfortable if you're sick.
I don't think the burger comparison is even worth pursuing; that was a $5 burger at a fast food outlet, and theoretically an employee who took the time to make a good one could have given you a burger that looked like the advertised one.
Assuming said employee had access to toothpicks, Elmer's glue, food coloring, clear epoxy, road salt and black paint, I hope you meant. Food in commercials is constructed like skyscrapers.
True, working inside an organizational system is different than working outside of one, and like you I don't know if Lessig is an inside player.
But let's be realistic, here - all I want, all I think anybody really wants, is a copyright adviser who actually understands the different facets of copyright and hasn't spent the last decade or more working for Sony/BMG, Disney, or some other obvious media conglomerate.
If this were still the Bush administration we were talking about here, I know the choice would be somebody with big business connections and an agenda; I have more faith in Obama to choose somebody with university connections a fucking brain.
Ever seen an episode of Mash without the laugh track? The DVDs give you the option. I recommend it - it gives the show an entirely unexpected level of depth.
The Enterprise-D was the third Galaxy Class starship built. The Galaxy was first; The Yamato was second. Enterprise was followed by the Challenger, the Venture and the Odyssey.
It's a common mistake, though not a particularly pervasive or ignorant one, so I'm going to assume that it's one of those words you've heard said and have never seen written down. With that in mind, this is purely educational: It's spelled Hocked, not hawked.
The major gripe for ordinary users is the loss of Target Disk Mode. I can't count the number of times my ass has been saved by being able to boot my powerbook/ibook/macbook as a firewire drive.
It's not as big of a deal these days as it used to be, but back in the day target disk mode was the only way of getting to the contents of your powerbook's hard drive without disassembling the entire machine. On the macbooks now, it's easy - take out the battery, unscrew three screws and pull a tab - but it's STILL not as easy as restarting your computer, holding down the "T" button and plugging in a cable.
I'm not an expert on the subject, but it looks like the summary doesn't match the article.
The summary says the new bill leaves out a section that might have brought a presidental veto, but the article says that the part that the president might take issue with, the creation of a "Copyright Czar" within the White House, was left IN the bill but that a veto is unlikely.
The summary also says that the bill has passed the senate, but I can't find a record of that in THOMAS anywhere, just that the AMENDMENTS to the bill were unanimously approved and that the bill itself is scheduled to be voted on soon. Nothing has passed anything yet; there's no congressional voting record available.
This is an important piece of legislation, I know it is, but the summary makes it sound like this is a done deal when it's absolutely not. Some rudimentary fact-checking would've killed ya?
My iPod is driving me up the wall.
Apple included a neat feature a few revisions back - the iPod will detect when your headphones are unplugged, say, while walking with the player in your pocket, and automatically pause playback until you plug them back in. Cute, right?
It WAS cute...until it started doing it on its own, say, in the car with a tape adapter plugged in.
This is maddening enough, but it isn't anywhere near as maddening as Apple's insistence not to offer an option in the firmware to turn the feature OFF if you don't want it. They assumed that everybody would like the feature, and if it worked, it would be great. But it doesn't so we're stuck with it.
Rockbox offers the ability to turn the feature off, but without access to a windows machine, getting my iPod to work with the alternative firmware involved me hosing the device, then resetting it, over and over until I gave up.
How is this announcement related to the recent 250 GB monthly usage threshold?
The two are completely separate and distinct. The new congestion management technique is based on real-time Internet activity. The goal is to avoid congestion on our network that is being caused by the heaviest users. The technique is different from the recent announcement that 250 GB/month is the aggregate monthly usage threshold that defines excessive use.
Going over the 250GB cap will get you disconnected, but your bandwidth will get throttled long, long before that if you do anything their software deems "excessive."
While it's true that large cities lean Democratic, New York City has had Republican mayors for the past 14 years.
You don't get NYC politics.
Bloomberg is a Democrat through and through, he just ran on the Republican ticket.
Rudy was a Democrat in the 70's and an admirer of the Kennedy family. He became a Republican rather late in his career, and his policies as mayor lean so far left that he would be considered unelectable anywhere other than New York City if it wasn't for 9/11.
Democrat and Republican don't mean a damn thing in NYC politics; liberal and conservative do.
Point being that when I want to play a game, I'm looking for something that I can play _now_, not wait hours or days for a download to complete to save some money.
You either have too little regard for money or too little patience. You should work on that - try cutting coupons before you go grocery shopping some weekend, it'll teach you a bit of both.
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I agree with your first point, but IMHO soldiers who committed torture do not deserve protection.
Okay, so if you believe that, then push to have them tried in a military (or civilian, but that'll never happen) court.
Logic like that gets people lynched by an angry mob; that ain't justice.
Provided iTunes is running, it starts ripping a CD into the library as soon as a CD is inserted.
iTunes asks you first, with the option of making your decision to rip the CD (or not) your default behavior. It doesn't assume.
And as soon as the iPod is connected, the files will get transferred to it.
iTunes asks you first, with the option of making your decision to automatically transfers songs to the iPod the CD (or not) your default behavior. It doesn't assume.
Spoken like a true nerd - it would be dazzling and shiny and a technological marvel and completely impractical to actually play football on. Lights shining up from the ground into the players' faces? Weird backlighting making aerial photography a pain? Dizzying and confusing end-zone images?
All just to spend millions of dollars in new and uninvented tech to fix a problem that a gardener with a roll of astroturf with "GATORS!" written on it and a rake have been solving for 15 bucks an hour for decades.
Nerds. Gotta love 'em.
This entire thread should be marked -1, offtopic - this isn't about women being allowed to breast-feed their children in public. This is about women choosing to post picture of themselves breastfeeding on a public forum.
This is about facebook's take on public decency and their implementation of those standards. Any argument about the legality of breastfeeding in public is a red herring - If the women in question don't post these pictures, their children don't go hungry.
Ever been on the phone with somebody who was surfing the net, and you realized that they weren't really listening to you, and when you called them on it they completely denied that they weren't not paying you attention when you knew damn well they were preoccupied?
Maybe you young whippersnappers can multitask better than I can at my creaky age (creaky technologically, anyway), but being in a conversation with someone who receives and replies to a text message more often than not stops the verbal conversation dead in its tracks until the message is sent. Maybe I'm old-fashioned or something, but I find it more rude than just stepping away for a two minute phone conversation because then, at least, there isn't the pretense that you and the person you're talking to have each other's complete attention.
The only limitations should be use of anti-virus software and other protections so that they cannot hurt the network at the school when attached to it.
Brilliant. Absolutely fucking brilliant. That says, "At school, our network, our rules. At home, your parents' network, their rules." I don't like the idea of a school district controlling what a kid does outside the building, and that solves the problem beautifully.
In most big cities, either the whole city is served by one ISP or the ISPs service areas of the city by neighborhood. When I lived in New York City, the only way for me to get a different cable/ISP was to move - I didn't have good sightlines for satellite and I was too far from the switching station to be served by fiber. My choice was literally Cablevision or dialup. That was in Brooklyn; in Manhattan, it was Time Warner or dialup. You buy in to the monopoly, you deal without internet access or you mooch off your neighbors. I don't live in NYC any more, but I still live in a fairly large east-coast city (population of 100,000 or so) - my choice in ISP here is Comcast or... it's the same damn thing. Point being, city size has nothing to do with it.
There's a video up on the referenced website, and it's freakin' hilarious - there are 20-30 kids seated at computers and wearing headsets and playing around in a virtual world, completely ignoring the fact that, if they took the computers away, they'd be sitting in a room with 19-29 other students who could easily pose the same arguments and take on the same personalities IN PERSON. It's called Model UN, and it's been going on in high schools for at least a decade. The selling feature of this thing looks to be that it's happening in a virtual world that looks sorta like the conference rooms in the real world where decisions were made about Hurricane Mitch, and that you can make your avatars look like the real-life politicians involved.
The internet is not and should never be a replacement for exercising an imagination. I can't help but shake the feeling that somebody needed to justify a shiny new computer lab and this is what they came up with.
I'm guessing you were never in Model UN in high school - this looks to be exactly like that, but with a glossy, Second Life sheen.
It could be fun if it were done correctly or at least be educational, but this looks like it'll end poorly. I fail to see why getting kids into a room, assigning them characters and responsibilities and letting them argue with each other needs to have an OMG TEH INTERNETS MAEK AWESOME component to it.
The purpose of the evening news, at a fundamental level, is to supply its viewership with, in order:
You'll notice that those three things (sports, traffic and weather) go at the end of the broadcast to force you, FORCE YOU, to watch the first 15 minutes of programming. Those fifteen minutes of airtime contain
...which is not to say I AGREE with any of that, just that that's the logic. I think.
If you look at a Big Mac ad (assuming they actually show the burger these days; it's getting rarer and rarer) you'll see that the things on the burger in the ad match up to the things on the burger in the stores. They can make the components of the thing look as appetizing as all hell when in reality it's made my a teenager in a polyester shirt and stupid hat who couldn't care less about their job, but they can't say the thing has mushrooms on it when it doesn't; they can't say it's bigger than it really is; they can't say it will cure cancer.
The Apple ad straddled a very fine line - its intent, so far as I can see, was to demonstrate the features of the phone in as expedient a fashion as possible - it can go online! It can play music! Etc.! The problem is, the ad was talking about the speed of the network and the speed of the interface making "the internet" faster, which to most people means something less complicated that what it means to nerds, and it was skipping over some steps.
Apple effectively claimed their phone could do something it couldn't. Not blatantly and not specifically, but the way it's used in the ad makes it look like, well, like magic to somebody who doesn't know better. Apple isn't claiming that their phone cures cancer in other words, but they are claiming it might make you feel more comfortable if you're sick.
I don't think the burger comparison is even worth pursuing; that was a $5 burger at a fast food outlet, and theoretically an employee who took the time to make a good one could have given you a burger that looked like the advertised one.
Assuming said employee had access to toothpicks, Elmer's glue, food coloring, clear epoxy, road salt and black paint, I hope you meant. Food in commercials is constructed like skyscrapers.
True, working inside an organizational system is different than working outside of one, and like you I don't know if Lessig is an inside player.
But let's be realistic, here - all I want, all I think anybody really wants, is a copyright adviser who actually understands the different facets of copyright and hasn't spent the last decade or more working for Sony/BMG, Disney, or some other obvious media conglomerate.
If this were still the Bush administration we were talking about here, I know the choice would be somebody with big business connections and an agenda; I have more faith in Obama to choose somebody with university connections a fucking brain.
And while we're at it, you need to learn when to treat words that begin with an "H" as if they begin with a vowel and when not to.
"An honor" is correct. "An historic" is correct.
"An hobby" is not.
Ever seen an episode of Mash without the laugh track? The DVDs give you the option. I recommend it - it gives the show an entirely unexpected level of depth.
The Enterprise-D was the third Galaxy Class starship built. The Galaxy was first; The Yamato was second. Enterprise was followed by the Challenger, the Venture and the Odyssey.
It's a common mistake, though not a particularly pervasive or ignorant one, so I'm going to assume that it's one of those words you've heard said and have never seen written down. With that in mind, this is purely educational: It's spelled Hocked , not hawked.
Happy learning!
Not to mention the fact that the FIRST thing to break on a computer in my experience, on ANY computer, is the optical drive.
The major gripe for ordinary users is the loss of Target Disk Mode. I can't count the number of times my ass has been saved by being able to boot my powerbook/ibook/macbook as a firewire drive.
It's not as big of a deal these days as it used to be, but back in the day target disk mode was the only way of getting to the contents of your powerbook's hard drive without disassembling the entire machine. On the macbooks now, it's easy - take out the battery, unscrew three screws and pull a tab - but it's STILL not as easy as restarting your computer, holding down the "T" button and plugging in a cable.
I'm not an expert on the subject, but it looks like the summary doesn't match the article.
The summary says the new bill leaves out a section that might have brought a presidental veto, but the article says that the part that the president might take issue with, the creation of a "Copyright Czar" within the White House, was left IN the bill but that a veto is unlikely.
The summary also says that the bill has passed the senate, but I can't find a record of that in THOMAS anywhere, just that the AMENDMENTS to the bill were unanimously approved and that the bill itself is scheduled to be voted on soon. Nothing has passed anything yet; there's no congressional voting record available.
This is an important piece of legislation, I know it is, but the summary makes it sound like this is a done deal when it's absolutely not. Some rudimentary fact-checking would've killed ya?
(and no, I'm not new here.)
My iPod is driving me up the wall. Apple included a neat feature a few revisions back - the iPod will detect when your headphones are unplugged, say, while walking with the player in your pocket, and automatically pause playback until you plug them back in. Cute, right? It WAS cute...until it started doing it on its own, say, in the car with a tape adapter plugged in. This is maddening enough, but it isn't anywhere near as maddening as Apple's insistence not to offer an option in the firmware to turn the feature OFF if you don't want it. They assumed that everybody would like the feature, and if it worked, it would be great. But it doesn't so we're stuck with it. Rockbox offers the ability to turn the feature off, but without access to a windows machine, getting my iPod to work with the alternative firmware involved me hosing the device, then resetting it, over and over until I gave up.
How is this announcement related to the recent 250 GB monthly usage threshold?
The two are completely separate and distinct. The new congestion management technique is based on real-time Internet activity. The goal is to avoid congestion on our network that is being caused by the heaviest users. The technique is different from the recent announcement that 250 GB/month is the aggregate monthly usage threshold that defines excessive use.
Gizmodo's take on the thing is much easier to read.
Going over the 250GB cap will get you disconnected, but your bandwidth will get throttled long, long before that if you do anything their software deems "excessive."
While it's true that large cities lean Democratic, New York City has had Republican mayors for the past 14 years.
You don't get NYC politics.
Bloomberg is a Democrat through and through, he just ran on the Republican ticket.
Rudy was a Democrat in the 70's and an admirer of the Kennedy family. He became a Republican rather late in his career, and his policies as mayor lean so far left that he would be considered unelectable anywhere other than New York City if it wasn't for 9/11.
Democrat and Republican don't mean a damn thing in NYC politics; liberal and conservative do.
Point being that when I want to play a game, I'm looking for something that I can play _now_, not wait hours or days for a download to complete to save some money.
You either have too little regard for money or too little patience. You should work on that - try cutting coupons before you go grocery shopping some weekend, it'll teach you a bit of both.