In addition, the computer desk can share a room with a dining table, and if you remember to close it up, it won't look out of place when guests are over. My next-door-neighbor lost his "office" when their fourth munchkin arrived, and after a week or so, he was fine with the new arrangement.
Taken another way, he article says "risk of dying in the next year of well under one in 1,000." If that risk was actually 0.6 in 1000, then your chance of surviving would be 999.4 in 1000.
(0.9994)**1000=0.548, or 54.8% chance of surviving.
So, if the author was generalizing a little to achieve round numbers, his statistics are pretty close. Note that this doesn't mean I believe that we're anywhere close to achieving it, but his statistics are OK.
How this guy is a PhD is beyond me with this fundamental misapplication of basic applied statistics.
It's not *fundamentally* wrong; he's in the ballpark. If you have a 1/1000 chance of dying in a given year due to misadventure, you have a 999/1000 chance of surviving. Repeat every year for 1k years, and you get 999**1000=0.37, or a 37% chance of making it to age 1000 without a fatal accident. 37% is "close enough" to 50% for me.
If you *are* a couch potato at age 18, you probably *will* need a whole lot of pills to sustain a miserable existence by the time you're 60. Becoming an "active outdoors type" is the easiest way to stay healthy into old age. I'm in a lot better shape now (at age 40) than I was at 20, but it took a little slap in the face called lymphoma at 22 to wake me up. Having learned to appreciate life and stay active, I now fully expect to be climbing mountains into my 70's, and the thought of dying at 90 or so scares the bejeebers out of me.
Having listened to America the Book (the Audiobook) on my iPod, it seemed to me that half the jokes were audible. From Thomas Jefferson reading his own introduction to the little-old lady voice describing the boston Tea Party to Samantha Bee's inflections on the "how we do it in Canada" sidebars, to JS's pomposity ("John F. Kerry--monogrammed for destiny!") I was continuously in stitches. Of course, being abridged, I realize that a lot of stuff is missing (one chapter introduction promised a discussion of MILFs that never materialized), so I'll probably still read the dead tree version soon.
I would note that MSIE is just under 90% and the other set of numbers show that windows usage is almost the same figure. This would seem to indicate that Windows people are still all using IE with very few exceptions
My site is an example to the contrary. 92.7% of visitors are running Windows, but only 82.9% are running IE. Discounting the small minority of MacOS IE users, that tells me that ~10% of the folks running Windows have switched from IE. Mozilla+Netscape+Safari make up 15%, but Firebird is just breaking 1%. (Links available on request; I don't want to be accused of shameless self-promotion.)
One point: iTunes 4.2 actually runs just fine on 10.1.5, which was a free upgrade from 10.0, and which runs on every Mac built since 1998. So, yes, two years from now, things could change, but the fact that it works well *right now* on a six-year-old machine is a lot more leeway than you seem to be willing to admit.
My point is that the community seemd to think that it's OK for Glaser to say "So far, offering a music store or the Rhapsody subscription service on the Mac hasn't made the cut." But if Apple says "So far, offering to allow other music stores to install their songs on out hardware hasn't made the cut," they're somehow evil.
...I've never seen it billed as "the Apple music store"...
Well, for the first day or so of the store's existence, the URL in the TV commercials was www.applemusic.com. I think it took the lawyers about 15 seconds to tell the advertising department that this was a no-no, and now it re-directs you immediately to www.apple.com/itunes/. At the very least, I see Apple computer giving Apple Corps this domain.
Speaking as a consumer, the iPod is a huge step up from what was available before it hit the market. I have a Rio 500 that can crash if you select the wrong subset of ID3 tags to send to the display!
But back on-topic: the TH-55 really does make a great movie player. Same size screen as this monster, with barely any plastic "margin" around it, and only five-eighths of an inch thick.
Apple, would you please fix your iPods so that they work reliably?
This is just an off-the wall idea, but if you've had *two* iPods "go bad" in this way, it is entirely possible that one of your music files is the cause of the problem. There may be some corrupt bits in there (entirely possible, and something I've seen in Napster/KaZaa downloads). How many of your songs are mp3's from old archives vs new mp3/AAC/ALC rips from iTunes? If you're willing to ditch PMC and give an iPod another try, I'd recommend loading it from scratch with ONLY files that you've ripped yourself from CD's, and add "other" files slowly to see when the problem reappears.
I've had a 3rd-Gen iPod for a year now, and I've never experienced troubles like you've had. The only thing I've seen that's even close to a lock-up occurs if I dock the thing and my iMac is sitting there with over a month of uptime and iTunes has been started/quit too many times. The devices just won't talk, and both need a reset before they'll get along again.
P.S. I use a Clie TH-55 for my "home-grown" PMC. Sure, it'll only fit an hour of video at a time, but I can fit it and multiple Memory Sticks in my pocket for a full day of video goodness.
I don't get why ANY pda EVER has not had a battery backup, but that is just me.
Because there are alternatives that save space. My Clie TH55 simply refuses to turn on when battery level gets too low to support the display, but not so low that the RAM would empty. This has happened to me three times now, and I've never lost a byte of data.
In the past, I used a Palm III, and backed up critical data to the unused portion of Flash where the 'ROM' resides.
Just wanted to add my dittos to the TH55. But the parent neglected to mention a few features:
Also bundled with Picsel Viewer, permitting native viewing of PowerPoint and Acrobat documents (better-looking than the respective docs-to-go and Adobe products, IMHO. Besides, the Adobe-brand viewer is non-native; requires a conversion to Palm format)
Movie player that works in abovementioned full-screen mode (accepts MPEG-1, and includes a [Windows-only] utility for MPEG-4 conversion, allowing ~30 minutes on a 128 MB Memory Stick)
Memory Stick can be mounted as a 'normal' drive [in Windows] for easy file transfer back and forth
My only problems have been in finding the right-sized screen protector, and the fact that my main iron is MacOS (and therefore need to borrow my wife's WinXP laptop occasionally).
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Amen, brudda! It was nice to see some WINDOWS in Cloud City. The rest of it was crud. "Jedi" is just plain wrong without the Ewoks' *Lug Nub* song at the end.
the last time I was inside a woman, I was visiting the Statue of Liberty.
You won't be getting inside of this one either. Please note that the "reopened" statue tour only gets you to the top of the pedestal, not inside of the statue herself, which remains off limits. You *do* get to look up her skirt, however.
(I think this move was coming from the National Park Service eventually anyway, regardless of 9/11. The last time I visited, in the summer of 2000, only the first ferry-load of visitors every day were actually allowed to climb inside the statue.)
The article ignores the fact that Apple has licensed FairPlay from Veridisc. It was not created in-house. Now, they may have negotiated themselves an exclusive license for some period of time, and more power to 'em, but this is NOT "Apple imposing an Apple-proprietary standard" as some would have us believe.
Good point. I think iTunes is great, but how the £$%^ can I get it to store a playlist that:
- is emptied when I open iTunes (or even better, when I haven't been using it for 30 mins or more)
This sounds like a pretty unique requirement. Winamp will do it for you now? In MacOS, I'd use AppleScript. It would take about three lines. There is a Windows equivalent, isn't there?
- I can append songs to really easily, preferably by double-clicking
Drag-and-drop is *that* much more difficult? You do know that the default behavior for double-cliking on a song is to PLAY it, right? I think you'd have a few million folks disagreeing with you on this one.
Sony's going to need to establish a good ID department before they start producing innovative products again.
They have been producing some innovative products; for some strange reason, they keep killing them. I own a TH-55 Clie, and think it's the perfect PDA. Variable processor speed that keeps it running for a week instead of having to spend half of every day docked and recharging, 802.11b, playback of mp3 and Audible.com files, Super-hires (320x480) screen with a portrait mode for movie watching (the included converter will quickly fit 30 high-quality minutes on a 128 MB Memory Stick). I don't use the camera or voice recorder, but it's nice to know that they're there.
Lest you suspect that I'm a total Sony fanboy, I also have a 3rd-Gen iPod that you'd have to kill me to get off my belt.
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In addition, the computer desk can share a room with a dining table, and if you remember to close it up, it won't look out of place when guests are over. My next-door-neighbor lost his "office" when their fourth munchkin arrived, and after a week or so, he was fine with the new arrangement.
Taken another way, he article says "risk of dying in the next year of well under one in 1,000." If that risk was actually 0.6 in 1000, then your chance of surviving would be 999.4 in 1000.
(0.9994)**1000=0.548, or 54.8% chance of surviving.
So, if the author was generalizing a little to achieve round numbers, his statistics are pretty close. Note that this doesn't mean I believe that we're anywhere close to achieving it, but his statistics are OK.
Cardiac failure or Type 2 diabetes.
If you *are* a couch potato at age 18, you probably *will* need a whole lot of pills to sustain a miserable existence by the time you're 60. Becoming an "active outdoors type" is the easiest way to stay healthy into old age. I'm in a lot better shape now (at age 40) than I was at 20, but it took a little slap in the face called lymphoma at 22 to wake me up. Having learned to appreciate life and stay active, I now fully expect to be climbing mountains into my 70's, and the thought of dying at 90 or so scares the bejeebers out of me.
Having listened to America the Book (the Audiobook) on my iPod, it seemed to me that half the jokes were audible. From Thomas Jefferson reading his own introduction to the little-old lady voice describing the boston Tea Party to Samantha Bee's inflections on the "how we do it in Canada" sidebars, to JS's pomposity ("John F. Kerry--monogrammed for destiny!") I was continuously in stitches. Of course, being abridged, I realize that a lot of stuff is missing (one chapter introduction promised a discussion of MILFs that never materialized), so I'll probably still read the dead tree version soon.
One point: iTunes 4.2 actually runs just fine on 10.1.5, which was a free upgrade from 10.0, and which runs on every Mac built since 1998. So, yes, two years from now, things could change, but the fact that it works well *right now* on a six-year-old machine is a lot more leeway than you seem to be willing to admit.
My point is that the community seemd to think that it's OK for Glaser to say "So far, offering a music store or the Rhapsody subscription service on the Mac hasn't made the cut." But if Apple says "So far, offering to allow other music stores to install their songs on out hardware hasn't made the cut," they're somehow evil.
He wants Apple to let him install his music on the iPod, but won't let us install it on our Mac OS computers.
But back on-topic: the TH-55 really does make a great movie player. Same size screen as this monster, with barely any plastic "margin" around it, and only five-eighths of an inch thick.
I've had a 3rd-Gen iPod for a year now, and I've never experienced troubles like you've had. The only thing I've seen that's even close to a lock-up occurs if I dock the thing and my iMac is sitting there with over a month of uptime and iTunes has been started/quit too many times. The devices just won't talk, and both need a reset before they'll get along again.
P.S. I use a Clie TH-55 for my "home-grown" PMC. Sure, it'll only fit an hour of video at a time, but I can fit it and multiple Memory Sticks in my pocket for a full day of video goodness.
In the past, I used a Palm III, and backed up critical data to the unused portion of Flash where the 'ROM' resides.
My only problems have been in finding the right-sized screen protector, and the fact that my main iron is MacOS (and therefore need to borrow my wife's WinXP laptop occasionally).
For those who haven't seen it, the ending.
(I think this move was coming from the National Park Service eventually anyway, regardless of 9/11. The last time I visited, in the summer of 2000, only the first ferry-load of visitors every day were actually allowed to climb inside the statue.)
The article ignores the fact that Apple has licensed FairPlay from Veridisc. It was not created in-house. Now, they may have negotiated themselves an exclusive license for some period of time, and more power to 'em, but this is NOT "Apple imposing an Apple-proprietary standard" as some would have us believe.
Whoops, I screwed up. Clearing a playlist is even easier. Right-click on the playlist title, and then choose "Clear" from the pop-up picklist. Duh.
Lest you suspect that I'm a total Sony fanboy, I also have a 3rd-Gen iPod that you'd have to kill me to get off my belt.