They were forced to by Congress, which under pressure from the dietary supplement ("health food") industry banned the FDA from regulating such as drugs. It's a real scandal.
AT&T Wireless got out of the business, so the ones on American and IIRC Northwest are all out of service now. Verizon (ex GTE) is still in the business so the ones on United are still there.
As someone else noted, this is highly ironic as the airfone clearly helped the UA 79 passengers bring the flight down to prevent it from hitting the Capitol.
This will make the iPod much more useful. Worth upgrading for that reason alone.
(I'm still skeptical about Music Store. If it turns out that the AACs are portable and unencumbered except by iTunes, then I'll be ok with it - but if they're locked to one iTunes client, no dice. Burn-rip is too much of a pain.)
but the quality will suck ass. Remember that MP3 and AAC are different compression schemes, so you'll get much worse quality than if you did a burn-rip from MP3 to MP3.
Also, it will be a major hassle, and then you have all those burnt CDs that you'll use very infrequently, which will be a cost and a pain as well. Which, I suspect, is the point.
Okay, this is less bad than previous pay-per-song services, but it's still not acceptable. You can't do any of the following legal things without significant loss of quality:
play bought tunes on a non-iPod player such as Archos or Rio
stream bought tunes to a SliMP3 or Audiotron
play bought tunes on your Windows or Linux PC
burn bought tunes on an MP3-CD for use in the car or a DVD player
switch to another client other than iTunes (e.g. Audion) for your Mac music experience
broadcast bought tunes using Shoutcast
So, despite the convenience, I think it will not compare to either ripping CDs or downloading from less-than-legal services. Too bad.
It maxes out at 12 or 14 pt (can't remember now). I wanted to set it much bigger. An AC who "didn't like my attitude" said there was some textfile somewhere one could edit, so I might investigate that.
Doesn't work. "Light" is the least bad of a set of bad choices for me. "OFF" would be desirable, but is not available. (Alternative would be to set minimum font size for smoothing really high - e.g. 18 or 24 point.)
I will note, however, that when I checked in stores the newer PBs weren't exactly beautiful to me. Then again, I am an old, old Mac fan dating back to 1987, so to me small, clear screen fonts like Geneva are best. Maybe the young'uns like their text fuzzy, I don't know.
I only wish we had the level of control over text in X that we did in 9. If you want to use Geneva/Chicago and NEVER smooth, this should be a choice! But not even TinkerTool makes this happen.
Because even with "Light" smoothing and small fonts unsmoothed the damn thing hurts my eyes. Windows font smoothing is much better, I regret to say (and I hate Windows XP).
Also one hopes the general Really Slow problem will be reduced, but I'm not holding my breath. (Still using Bronze PB G3, yes, I know, shoot me.)
Just take a Linksys box, and a copy of Windows XP into the hearing room and tell the dumbasses there assembled that these useful and commonly used devices will be illegal in their state if this moronic bill passes. And that all those High Tech Jobs (TM) that aforementioned dumbasses keep saying they want to attract will move out of state if said moronic restrictions in fact become law.
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Anyway Apple is unlikely to fight it, just as Apple doesn't fight the guys who have developed work-arounds to iPod file access limits.
They were forced to by Congress, which under pressure from the dietary supplement ("health food") industry banned the FDA from regulating such as drugs. It's a real scandal.
Will they drive a spear through the heart of the spammer? I would move back to Virginia just to be part of that.
My question: WTF about the big Vertical Ad that my subscription won't block?
all those yahoos who say they're "QUITTING SLASHDOT NOW!!" and then just get another account.
As someone else noted, this is highly ironic as the airfone clearly helped the UA 79 passengers bring the flight down to prevent it from hitting the Capitol.
that would be the work-around we need.
(I'm still skeptical about Music Store. If it turns out that the AACs are portable and unencumbered except by iTunes, then I'll be ok with it - but if they're locked to one iTunes client, no dice. Burn-rip is too much of a pain.)
I thought that was a feature. I hate anti-aliasing of fonts on Mac.
Also, it will be a major hassle, and then you have all those burnt CDs that you'll use very infrequently, which will be a cost and a pain as well. Which, I suspect, is the point.
play bought tunes on a non-iPod player such as Archos or Rio
stream bought tunes to a SliMP3 or Audiotron
play bought tunes on your Windows or Linux PC
burn bought tunes on an MP3-CD for use in the car or a DVD player
switch to another client other than iTunes (e.g. Audion) for your Mac music experience
broadcast bought tunes using Shoutcast
So, despite the convenience, I think it will not compare to either ripping CDs or downloading from less-than-legal services. Too bad.
Like guarding the Oil Ministry while letting the National Museum, Library, and more fall to looters? If that isn't dumbass, not to mention tragic in its disregard for the whole world's cultural heritage, I don't know what is.
... probably not as much as Kazaa, however.
as long as we can delete it. As i imagine most distributions will.
Aha! Just the technical manual I need for network management!
It maxes out at 12 or 14 pt (can't remember now). I wanted to set it much bigger. An AC who "didn't like my attitude" said there was some textfile somewhere one could edit, so I might investigate that.
Pontiac Firebird.
You should absolutely Blame Cisco!
Doesn't work. "Light" is the least bad of a set of bad choices for me. "OFF" would be desirable, but is not available. (Alternative would be to set minimum font size for smoothing really high - e.g. 18 or 24 point.)
They could at least let us G3 Bronze sufferers turn it off! Very bothersome that this option is missing.
I will note, however, that when I checked in stores the newer PBs weren't exactly beautiful to me. Then again, I am an old, old Mac fan dating back to 1987, so to me small, clear screen fonts like Geneva are best. Maybe the young'uns like their text fuzzy, I don't know.
I only wish we had the level of control over text in X that we did in 9. If you want to use Geneva/Chicago and NEVER smooth, this should be a choice! But not even TinkerTool makes this happen.
Also one hopes the general Really Slow problem will be reduced, but I'm not holding my breath. (Still using Bronze PB G3, yes, I know, shoot me.)
Just take a Linksys box, and a copy of Windows XP into the hearing room and tell the dumbasses there assembled that these useful and commonly used devices will be illegal in their state if this moronic bill passes. And that all those High Tech Jobs (TM) that aforementioned dumbasses keep saying they want to attract will move out of state if said moronic restrictions in fact become law.
No, I Tivo'd it. Michael Powell said I should!
(Oh, I can't remember. Have I MetaModerated Recently?)