It was actually quite intriguing to see it in person. This old guy was crossing the street in Seattle's Wallingford neighborhood. My friend commented "is that legal?"
The old guy made it across the street in a jiffy and was a block and a half away by the time the light turned green. From the looks, if an older person can master a Segway, then they shouldn't have as big a need for a car, particularly in urban areas. Perhaps it'd be safer for them to have a Segway (so long as they're not falling off it and breaking a hip)?
Not a bad trailer. What I really liked is that the 640x272 trailer played full screen (no letterbox whatsoever) on my 20" Cinema Display. Looked freakin' great.
Wouldn't GOOD films benefit from texting in the same way???
I'd like to believe that, but the cynic in me says that people are more interested in bashing bad movies than they are in promoting good movies. Besides, isn't it the good movies that get pirated more? It'd work to Hollywood's advantage not to have people texting each other about good movies. In Hollywood's eyes, everybody's a pirate, right?;-)
Internet was out for me in Seattle, while a co-worker of mine had no problems. I'm finally back up and running and everything appears to be back to normal. From midnight last night until noon today the modem was unable to get online. Comcast's techs said this was a nationwide problem, when I called them earlier and that I'd be credited for the downtime. That's somewhat of a relief.
There's no DRM on user-encoded AAC files, either, you know. The DRM is present for purchased AAC files from the iTunes Music Store.
Of course, you could burn your purchased songs to a CD and then re-rip them as AACs or MP3s, but that's a pain in the ass, and produces lower-quality files.
He didn't try to download the songs again. He was trying to re-authorize, which means that the songs were present on his drive, but that his copy of iTunes hadn't been authorized to play them. He also changed his Apple ID account to a non-US address, so that when he tried to re-authorize, iTunes saw that he wasn't in the US and then took appropriate measures on his files.
U.S. SALES ONLY
Purchases from the iTunes Music Store are available only in the United States and are not available in any other location. You agree not to use or attempt to use the service from outside of the available territory. Apple may use technologies to verify such compliance. (Emphasis mine)
The original air-cooled Beetle (introduced back in the 1930s) is discontinued. The New Beetle (front-engine water-cooled) is still being produced worldwide.
Dude, Apple Computer already got sued by Apple Records. They settled. This was years ago. 1989 to be more exact. And no, I couldn't find a link with more info in the short time it took to type this.
You need to go to System -> Preferences -> Screen Effects -> Activation and select "Use my user account password" under "Password to use when waking the screen effect:"
I also set the activation to Never, and then use a hot corner to activate the screen saver.
Thanks to this exploit, all of this is useless, however.
That's a good question to ask. I think it has something to do with the market saturation that Apple has. It leaves a lot of people wondering why Apple would want to possibly alienate developers considering how small its share of the market is.
Microsoft has frequently added more and more programs to its arsenal, and has its market share dropped? Nope. Perhaps Apple thinks the same will be true of their efforts. I can only hope so. I see more and more people coming over to the Mac platform, from Windows. This can only be a Good Thing(TM) for Apple.
On my cable modem (1.5mbps down/384kbps up) I was able to get 160kbps out to my friend in Los Angeles. Another friend on the other side of the state (Washington) only managed to get about 130kbps.
Now, realize, that's the bandwidth that was leaving my Mac. I still had another 160kbps or so entering it so I could see my friend.
My girlfriend went on and on about how she wanted an iSight. Last night I broke down and went with her to pick one up. It's a pretty sweet device. On our LAN here, we have no problems doing 2mbps video. Chatting with a couple friends, we've been able to do up to 160kbps. Still, not bad.
Earlier, I took my older Pismo PowerBook into the back yard and had an audio chat with her, while getting video from the iSight attached to her PowerMac. 700-800kbps there. Not bad at all. My audio stream going to here was 30kbps.
All in all, it's a sweet device. I need to make more Mac friends. It's only a matter of time before there's an iChat AV videochat directory*.
*All original ideas are the property of me. Boo yeah, grandma. I thought of it first, and so on...;-)
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Sigh, there is no sluggishness if you're using a fast Mac.
I'm running on a dual 1.42GHz G4 PowerMac right now. Sluggishness? Nope. I've found that there are some important things to remember with OS X and speed:
- You MUST have more than the paltry 256KB of L2 cache that you get with an iMac/eMac. The PowerBooks (1MB L3) and PowerMacs (1 or 2MB L3) really shine in this aspect.
- 512MB RAM is a minimum. Anything over that just makes using the computer more pleasant. I've got 1GB in mine.
- Got a Mac that doesn't support Quartz Extreme? Forget it - it's not worth the time. My old PowerBook Pismo is getting quite long in the tooth. It's not nearly as fast as the PowerMac, but it's still OK. If it had Quartz Extreme support, it'd be sweet.
BTW, this is a 64-bit desktop workstation. You can't expect the prices to stay the same for something that is completely different from the G4s that we've had now for years.
Going back through my memory, I can think of a couple other very important leaks:
* ATI leaks news of updated PowerMac G4s (and summarily gets poor product placement in them afterwards, with Apple favoring Nvidia for years to come) * Time Canada posts story of new flat-panel iMac before paper issue even hits the streets.
I'm sure there have been more, but those seem to be the most important.
This one will go down as probably the most significant leak in quite a while.
I don't think so. Hatch would put spin on it to push more filtering into schools/libraries/homes/whatever thanks to pr0n companies buying domains and parking web sites at them.
If the Insight doesn't look like a car to you, then why not get a Prius. Or, how about the Honda Civic Hybrid? Or, soon, the Ford Escape Hybrid?
The thing to remember about the Insight is that it takes economy to a higher level - lightweight construction, super-low drag coefficient (thanks to those wheel covers, and a very smooth underside, among many other things), and low rolling resistance (thanks to narrow tires). It's the car for the geeks. The Civic Hybrid is the car for the masses, IMHO.
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As an owner of a Philips Expanium (1st generation) and a RioVolt SP100, I can attest to this. The iPod is just too nice of a device to give up now.
When the air is thin, you can go 700mph. The 120mph terminal velocity applies to more dense air. Wired had covered this before.
It was actually quite intriguing to see it in person. This old guy was crossing the street in Seattle's Wallingford neighborhood. My friend commented "is that legal?"
The old guy made it across the street in a jiffy and was a block and a half away by the time the light turned green. From the looks, if an older person can master a Segway, then they shouldn't have as big a need for a car, particularly in urban areas. Perhaps it'd be safer for them to have a Segway (so long as they're not falling off it and breaking a hip)?
Not a bad trailer. What I really liked is that the 640x272 trailer played full screen (no letterbox whatsoever) on my 20" Cinema Display. Looked freakin' great.
Wouldn't GOOD films benefit from texting in the same way???
;-)
I'd like to believe that, but the cynic in me says that people are more interested in bashing bad movies than they are in promoting good movies. Besides, isn't it the good movies that get pirated more? It'd work to Hollywood's advantage not to have people texting each other about good movies. In Hollywood's eyes, everybody's a pirate, right?
*Results not typical.
Internet was out for me in Seattle, while a co-worker of mine had no problems. I'm finally back up and running and everything appears to be back to normal. From midnight last night until noon today the modem was unable to get online. Comcast's techs said this was a nationwide problem, when I called them earlier and that I'd be credited for the downtime. That's somewhat of a relief.
There's no DRM on user-encoded AAC files, either, you know. The DRM is present for purchased AAC files from the iTunes Music Store.
Of course, you could burn your purchased songs to a CD and then re-rip them as AACs or MP3s, but that's a pain in the ass, and produces lower-quality files.
He didn't try to download the songs again. He was trying to re-authorize, which means that the songs were present on his drive, but that his copy of iTunes hadn't been authorized to play them. He also changed his Apple ID account to a non-US address, so that when he tried to re-authorize, iTunes saw that he wasn't in the US and then took appropriate measures on his files.
Read the fucking article, please.
U.S. SALES ONLY
Purchases from the iTunes Music Store are available only in the United States and are not available in any other location. You agree not to use or attempt to use the service from outside of the available territory. Apple may use technologies to verify such compliance. (Emphasis mine)
Yeah, that emphasized part spells it all out.
The original air-cooled Beetle (introduced back in the 1930s) is discontinued. The New Beetle (front-engine water-cooled) is still being produced worldwide.
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Dude, Apple Computer already got sued by Apple Records. They settled. This was years ago. 1989 to be more exact. And no, I couldn't find a link with more info in the short time it took to type this.
(Karma to burn.)
You need to go to System -> Preferences -> Screen Effects -> Activation and select "Use my user account password" under "Password to use when waking the screen effect:"
I also set the activation to Never, and then use a hot corner to activate the screen saver.
Thanks to this exploit, all of this is useless, however.
That's a good question to ask. I think it has something to do with the market saturation that Apple has. It leaves a lot of people wondering why Apple would want to possibly alienate developers considering how small its share of the market is.
Microsoft has frequently added more and more programs to its arsenal, and has its market share dropped? Nope. Perhaps Apple thinks the same will be true of their efforts. I can only hope so. I see more and more people coming over to the Mac platform, from Windows. This can only be a Good Thing(TM) for Apple.
Nah, she was at work, and I was too tired to go out and do anything.
On my cable modem (1.5mbps down/384kbps up) I was able to get 160kbps out to my friend in Los Angeles. Another friend on the other side of the state (Washington) only managed to get about 130kbps.
Now, realize, that's the bandwidth that was leaving my Mac. I still had another 160kbps or so entering it so I could see my friend.
The video quality was surprisingly good, though.
iChat AV's version number is 2.0 (v106).
My girlfriend went on and on about how she wanted an iSight. Last night I broke down and went with her to pick one up. It's a pretty sweet device. On our LAN here, we have no problems doing 2mbps video. Chatting with a couple friends, we've been able to do up to 160kbps. Still, not bad.
;-)
Earlier, I took my older Pismo PowerBook into the back yard and had an audio chat with her, while getting video from the iSight attached to her PowerMac. 700-800kbps there. Not bad at all. My audio stream going to here was 30kbps.
All in all, it's a sweet device. I need to make more Mac friends. It's only a matter of time before there's an iChat AV videochat directory*.
*All original ideas are the property of me. Boo yeah, grandma. I thought of it first, and so on...
So WHY exactly would someone buy that G5, other than to prove something to the big wide world by showing off his mac?
You'll probably never understand until you sit down and use OS X for a week or two.
Could be.... http://www.insidemacgames.com/news/story.php?Artic leID=7782
Sigh, there is no sluggishness if you're using a fast Mac.
I'm running on a dual 1.42GHz G4 PowerMac right now. Sluggishness? Nope. I've found that there are some important things to remember with OS X and speed:
- You MUST have more than the paltry 256KB of L2 cache that you get with an iMac/eMac. The PowerBooks (1MB L3) and PowerMacs (1 or 2MB L3) really shine in this aspect.
- 512MB RAM is a minimum. Anything over that just makes using the computer more pleasant. I've got 1GB in mine.
- Got a Mac that doesn't support Quartz Extreme? Forget it - it's not worth the time. My old PowerBook Pismo is getting quite long in the tooth. It's not nearly as fast as the PowerMac, but it's still OK. If it had Quartz Extreme support, it'd be sweet.
BTW, this is a 64-bit desktop workstation. You can't expect the prices to stay the same for something that is completely different from the G4s that we've had now for years.
Going back through my memory, I can think of a couple other very important leaks:
* ATI leaks news of updated PowerMac G4s (and summarily gets poor product placement in them afterwards, with Apple favoring Nvidia for years to come)
* Time Canada posts story of new flat-panel iMac before paper issue even hits the streets.
I'm sure there have been more, but those seem to be the most important.
This one will go down as probably the most significant leak in quite a while.
I don't think so. Hatch would put spin on it to push more filtering into schools/libraries/homes/whatever thanks to pr0n companies buying domains and parking web sites at them.
If the Insight doesn't look like a car to you, then why not get a Prius. Or, how about the Honda Civic Hybrid? Or, soon, the Ford Escape Hybrid?
The thing to remember about the Insight is that it takes economy to a higher level - lightweight construction, super-low drag coefficient (thanks to those wheel covers, and a very smooth underside, among many other things), and low rolling resistance (thanks to narrow tires). It's the car for the geeks. The Civic Hybrid is the car for the masses, IMHO.
Don't expect an iBook revision anytime soon, at least for another 3+ months. It was last updated on 22 April.
For more information on when Apple's updated its hardware line, check out the MacRumors Buyer's Guide