For you non link clicking types, this is MacMinute's blurb: 21-Nov-2003
Apple is now offering an iPod AppleCare Protection Plan for both Mac and Windows users. (Previously, AppleCare was only available for Apple's desktops and laptops.) iPods come standard with 90 days of phone support and one year of hardware service coverage. The US$59 AppleCare plan extends service and support coverage for your iPod, its included accessories, and iTunes for up to two years from the original purchase date. With the plan, you get direct access to Apple experts for answers by phone and access to Web-based resources. If your iPod or its accessories need serviced, Apple-certified technicians will repair it or provide a replacement. The plan is available for all iPod models within their one-year limited warranty.
You dont want to be bound by Apple's DRM, buy CDs, just wait a couple of months after they come out when the price inevitably drops to about 10, which isnt really a lot, in most cases its prob cheaper than what you'd pay on IMS, for a decent sized album at least.
um, albums on ITMS are $9.98. if you HAVE to rip them without DRM you can burn them to an audio CD and re-rip it as MP3 or whatever. people will say the audio quality will drop, but it's still possible. you could also use the digi outs on those nice G5s and record to something digital (or right into another machine) and bla bla bla bla..... the point is that the Apple DRM is not a 100% lockdown, but it makes piracy a bit of a hassle. in that way i think they were realistic about the idea of software based security.
.... that infects your machine and emails everyone in your address book could cost you a few dollars? YIKES!
on a more serious note, is there a legal definition of what is spam? i consider anything about M$ Windows based products to be spam because i use a Mac, but i am sure to somebody it may be useful information.
i will admit the only things i have bought from their store are tracks not on the CDs or records..... i guess i add to the numbers of people buying single songs.... I also think i am old enough (though only 29) to still have a desire for artwork. that's why i prefer to buy LPs as opposed to CDs. I still look at a CD and think how much i prefer the larger layout of the LP format..... that being said i am sure that people raised on CDs will see it as less big of a deal, and the next generation will think we are all looney.
How i lost 40+ LBs in less than 8 weeks....
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I went Vegan.... NO exercise, ONLY changing what i ate and i dropped ocver 40LBS in less than two months. I had already been vegetarian for about 7 years and hit about 275 when i had enough. About 2 years later i am down to 205 lbs (and 6foot 7inches). after losing the first 50lbs or so i was able to start exercising. Before i dropped that initial weight it was hard to get back in active mode. Once i lost that initial weight, everything fell into place.
Even if i lost 10 lbs i would stick to the "no dairy" plan because it had done more for my asthma and allergies than any meds have in my whole life (i'm 29 now)..... When i was little i was typic sever chronic asthma kid with midnight visits to the E.R. and all that... i could do sports and play but when it hit it hit hard. Till i quit dairy (i was 27, so i didnt outgrow anything) i was going through a rescue inhaler LITERALLY every 2 weeks, and was at the max doses of all the meds i was on. Since quitting dairy (within a month or so) those inhalers now last me about 4 months and i only use them as a precaution before i go out for a run..... 3 years ago a jog to the end of the block would make me wheeeze, now i can run at least 6 miles (my knees hurt around then and i stop)....
I know i'll get flamed for pissing off all the pizza and McDonalds eating nrrds out there, but if you have suffered with asthma, allergies, weight or anything like that you life you know how much it's sucks... try going vegan for at least 2 weeks straight and see if anything happens. I tried it on a whim and was so shocked at how well it worked i am only angry i did not try this sooner.
NOBODY MAKES MONEY FROM YOU GOING VEGAN. It is not a scam.... it gets easier to eat a vegan diet every day. i still eat crappy sugary cereal all the time (with Soy Milk) and french fries and peanut chews and waterice and whatnot, i am not a granola munching hippie. I seriously feel healthier at 29 than i have ever before in my life.
I saw Alien on wednesday when it first opened here (Philly) and first off there was a teaser for the next Resident Evil movie. wooohoooo! It's also on Apple's site if you want to watch it on your computer (Quicktime required). There is also some teaser/featurette for the upcoming ALIEN VS PREDATOR on the site.
As for Alien, it was awesome.... if you don't like the movie, then you might not like it no matter what, but i was 5 when it first came out and to see it in a theater with the bonus stuff in it was fun. It was amusing in a way with the 1979 technology, like flourescent lights that stutter when they come on and computers that make beeps and clickity clack noises. All that aside, I WISH MORE MOVIES USED MORE REAL MODELS AND LESS CG! Generally i am not one to gripe about CG, but the few scenes where the alien is hiding and they pan right over it..... that just can't come across in CG the way a physical model can. YIKES!
no, it's not the scaries movie of all time, but if you are going to nitpick on every detail of a movie, then you are no fun anyway. even so i have seen this movie a few times on TV/DVD/VHS and knew mostly was happening when..... it was still sooooooo worth my $8.00 i realize by Alien3 or Ressurection the stuff they had the aliens do just could not all be puppets anymore, but dang they really are so much creepier......
on a side note KILL BILL used no CG in the movie, all wires, rubber, plastic and 400 gallons of fake blood. nice to see some people keeping it old school.
$20 or $20 per machine? is there some secret bonus option beyond the family pack? family pack is up to 5 machines and "only" for household use. considering Apple doesn't (yet?) use DRM it's impressive to see the 10.3 family pack is #2 at the Apple online store this week:
1. Mac OS X v10.3
2. Mac OS X v10.3 Family
3. iPod
between that and the iTunes music store (1) i bet there will be some upcoming article about how Apple users seem to be more honest than M$ users... and happier too.
(1) Before the release of iTunes for Windows, Apple was selling more songs than all of the other online music sellers. That is impressive considering the actual number of Mac users.
until i got my G4 400MHz a few years ago i was using an 8100 that i eventually put a Sonnet G3 250MHz card in..... it was Nubus so other expansion was very limited (no USB, limited vid cards etc)..... anyway it worked adequately for a while.
Right now i am typing on the G4 400MHz. I upgraded the video card and when ram was cheap i got it up to a gig. I fully intend to install 10.3 when my copy shows up tomorrow, and from everything i have heard... the machine should actually run faster than it does today.
I still use a 7600 with the stock PPC604e at work running 9.1 and that works fine. I would like a faster machine, and some web pages make it choke but hey........
parent +2 informative? how about Score=0 Luddite
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Almost everything they make (along with others) doesn't work on pre-10.2, and that should change to 10.3 in the next few months. Upgrade or perish.
[rant] i don't understand? do you mean newly written software might at some point utilize features built into the new operating system? THOSE BASTARDS!
If you don't want to upgrade, then don't. Many many many people still use OS9. At some point there will be less choice for web browsers supporting the latest features, but most everything else will work as it does today and did 2 years ago. My mom still runs OS9 and she can still check email, and she still will after 10.3 hits the shelves tomorrow.
In terms of running the NEW os and running OLD apps, that's generally fine. OS X has this thing called classic mode and i can run old OS9 software pretty ok. Till Photoshop, Quark, Dreamweaver etc upgraded, i could run them in classic with very acceptable results. For example, i did layout for a few full color CDs, used Photoshop to tweak the graphics and Quark to do the layout. Took the files to the plant and got back CDs looking 100% as i wanted. I was able to keep working on websites using Dreamweaver without rebooting to OS 9. I really had no problems using Dreamweaver in classic mode.
i think the one issue is that when a car/pump/station go BOOM! there is a big mess to sift through.... there is that MythBusters show on Discovery or TLC and their investigations did not turn up a case of a cell phone actually causing a gas pump explosion, BUT there have been a non-trivial number of pumps blow up in the U.S. Their information implied that it *seems* it is due to people getting in and out of their cars, building up static electricity and then they discharge it when they remove the nozzle from the car (where the highly combustible fumes are). That's why a lot of stations that are self serve remove those clips so you have to hold the pump on (and not wander off or sit in your car for 60 seconds), I think the cell phone thing is just a precaution. There have been a few cases reported here on Slashdot of Nokia phones exploding.... i don't see why that happening at the pump might not create the idea situation for an explosion.
I have seen people smoke at a gas pump, and as far as i know they gas station survived..... it really requires an idea situation to explode, but it's just not something worth screwing with IMHO. That being said, using a phone (like a speedpass) to connect to my account before i start the pump seems fine to me. I live in a city and all the pumps are pre-pay, so you would be beep beeping your cell phone before the nozzle is removed from the pump anyway.
the one standard 12inch model is 800MHZ and the two 14inch models are 933MHz and 1GHz....... i wonder if it's a heat issue of the G4, or if they are trying to make the 12inch an entry model? Personally if i bought one i would go for 12inch just because of the portability factor. The slower processor makes me wonder though. I guess we will have to wait to see what actual G4 chip they have? That being said they seem like a decent upgrade and stay in the same price brackets. This seems to blur the line between 12inch ibook and powerbook even more.......
iTunes can be minimized to a little block to control the player. i don't know what does it on the windows version.... does it still have the "traffic light" on the top left? try there. Also for mac users(soon for windows?), there are hacks to itunes and something called "iTunes remote" that has been out for a long time... it lets you set up all kinds on configurations to control iTunes. For example one was a very thin strip that could run along the top or bottom of your screen. i have not used it in at least a year, but it exists and worked well... i just don't need it on a desktop with 2 CRTs.
some schools just don't want to deal with the hassle..... or instead of their lawyers spending time on the case (no matter how right or wrong Diebold may be), they might just make the students pull them down. They also may fear negative publicity. I don't know Swathmore's stance on this kind of issue, but that seemingly weak stance would seem commonplace today.
I belive it was Wired magazine a few months ago compared Schools and Universities and how they view their student's online rights.
For an example of a positive school, MIT supported the student(s) that started the bonsai kitty website after review from their legal department. Until they had explicity documentation that the webiste was somehow illegal or violated something or other, they allowed the site to remain up. I'm sure they were not happy to be painted as supporters of kitten abuse, but they were smart enough to see the real issue of free speech.
yeah if you read his article he seems to have a big problem with Apple "dissing" wma support...... No matter what you think about AAC vs MP3 vs OGG etc, wma is NOT a standard, the iPod doesn't play them, they are a hassle to play on a mac (and *nix?)... why should Apple support that?
Sounds like they are just venting. There have been rumblings of M$ getting into the business of selling music somehow. Apple's store seems somewhat to be working and keeping people happy on both sides, and now got tied into AOL and in promotions with Pepsi.
Oddly this week somebody from Apple said the ITMS's goal is not to make a lot of money, but somehting to help sell iPods. I am guessing if somebody had a good music store that supported iPods (read NOT wma DRM files) then Apple might not have bothered? But without that store previously existing, they risked being knocked off the top spot for MP3 players.
macintouch.com has great forums on Mac issues, i would say look/ask there or some of the Mac tech help mailing lists.
i know some older motherboards required you to hold the motherboard reset button for about 30 seconds if you ever pull the PRam battery out.
back to your first issue of manually jumpstarting a powersupply, dunno. sorry. just figured iw ould mention the motherboard reset button because i know somebody that got a lot of stress from not knowing that.
as if spamming wasn't enough.... yeah weird..... for you non article readers:
In 1996, Carlson, who California law enforcement officials believe placed anti-African Americans, anti-Jewish and anti-Latino leaflets into supermarket products, was sentenced to 32 months in prison for vandalizing more than two dozen luxury cars.
i know AIM off and on would tell you "your buddy is typing"..... i don't know if it worked with certain versions or is part of another feature or what, but it's been in AIM for some time now too. Not to dismiss the other older ones, but AIM is so huge that they can't ignore it... and it's still in popular use. I don't think it shows up on Adium (for OS X) or other 3rd party apps, but it does for AOL's AIM app.
The G3 chips that Apple still uses (ibooks) have been made by IBM for some time now.
Ithe rumor mills claim great things in store for the IBM G3s in future generations (including altivec support) and ever increased efficiency. I would guess in the next year or so, when Apple roughly predicted a G5 powerbook, we will see everything switch to G5 or these next generation G3 chips.
These super efficient and powerful G3 chips might lead to more fun machines like the fanless cube and iMac... let alone great news for ibook users.
when you think about it, how often do you see something on slashdot about a new linux kernal being out, or a patch to this or that. it is kind of the same. if you checked dischord's website off and on you would know, or they send promos to college/indie radio and zines well in adcance. they also run ads in indie music oriented magazines. also if you go to an indie music store they often have a chalkboard/whiteboard telling you upcoming releases for the next month or two or three. we did it when i worked at a record store. i still do a show at a college radio station and we generally get records/CD well in advance of them being on the street to promote them. also the people that talk to the labels know that a record is in the works months before it's out. that info makes it to the web now, you just have to read sites that focus on that kind of news.
yes, i realize Fugazi breaks all the rules in the sense of being unique in their hugeness, yet total control and integrity of their music and it's distribution. Their releases are sold in Tower, Sam Goody etc and if you shop there, i am sure they do not promote them like some dark little record store would. The same way you can walk into CompUSA and not miss a new version of windows being out but would never know that there is a new BSD download out. ya know? i have literally never used a windows machine for more than 3 minutes, but i probably know what the current OS version is.
i'm not trying to be a jerk, just making a point drawing parallels between music and technology.
maybe i am not following what you specifically are speaking of, but you can buy diagnostic code readers for most any car right now. they have been available for years. any Pep Boys, or auto parts place will sell those.
I suppose this means the auto makers could lock down the ability to read those codes (DMCA protected code?) and then only lease their readers to dealership run repair shops or sell them to everyone else for $900,000........ if they are FORCED to sell them at all.....
in the same way i guess they could make their own magic bolts and screws and patent their magical "parts holding on apparatus". i know plenty of cars and motorcycles require special tools, i suppose they could make it so only they sell those tools for, say ten years or till they don't care, and then let the patent loosen up. they could sell these magic tools for $99,000 or lease them to their dealership shops for $5 a year.
does this happen now? why not? not that i want to screw us all, but does this not happen because the law would not support it, or the public won't have it or are the auto makers just not interested in such control? would people just buy another vehicle? i have had to buy a few special tools for my motorcycles over the years, but in a 20+ year old bike i can't imagine Old Man Suzuki worries too much about control sales that valve tool. i know for a fact that car dealers make most of their money from the repair shop. hence the push for bumper to bumper coverage, they don't care if you pay them or the parent company, either way it keeps them working.
it depends on what the artist is going for....... did you ever see Josie and the Pussycats? yes the movie was a joke, but the hype factor of artists in the movie is kind of true. there are plenty of artists that were somewhat created overnight through a promotional campaign. they don't write their own songs, they never toured. yes, it's what the mindless masses will suck up, but you can not really consider them a musician or an artist. they are a performer. they could be replaced overnight and often are.
there are some bands that get big from writing songs and touring. the 50/50 split is nothing new, and has worked for many labels and artists for years. Labels like Dischord, Lookout!, Kill Rock Stars have used this model for years with bands like Fugazi, The Donnas, Greenday etc.
It works well for small labels and bands because the label and the band split profits 50/50 and in the early days the bands and the labels both have a real reason to make the records sell. when the bands get huge, the bands make a lot of money this way. that's a better percentage take than any major label could afford.
no, labels like that won't dreate the next brittnany spears, but how many of them exist, and who really want to sell their soul and suck that much anyway.
that's out of control...... i know more than 9 people that have ibooks and the only one with a real issue was the guy that stepped on it in his sleep (show me a lil laptop that can take 275+ lbs stumbling through the night and i'll be impressed). like the guy above said... APPLECARE!
if you got the same issue 9 times in a row that doesnt seem to happen to anyone else.... i would evaluate what you do with your machine. kind of like how 90% of the people with hinge problems on their Ti-Books were dropping them hinge side down in their bags. i feel your pain, but something seems amiss that's not 100% Apple's issue since those 9 ibooks would span a few revisions. i know one guy that had one of the first ice-book ibooks in the Philly area and his worked 100% till he stepped on the screen recently. i know people that have had them in their bags while riding a bike and been hit by a car and they still work 100%. i know peopel that have dropped them out of bed or rolled onto them a few times in the night. they are a pretty well built machine.
Benchmarks are extraordinary: compiling kde on a G5 running at half speed takes 15 minutes, while it takes 1 hour on the fastest P4 available.
on macslash this story talks about the crazy speeds they are claiming on the G5 running Gentoo Linux. Says they can not go superfast because of fan control issues still unresolved, but yikes! too good to be true?
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Story here on MacMinute, and here is the official Apple page on it.
For you non link clicking types, this is MacMinute's blurb:
21-Nov-2003
Apple is now offering an iPod AppleCare Protection Plan for both Mac and Windows users. (Previously, AppleCare was only available for Apple's desktops and laptops.) iPods come standard with 90 days of phone support and one year of hardware service coverage. The US$59 AppleCare plan extends service and support coverage for your iPod, its included accessories, and iTunes for up to two years from the original purchase date. With the plan, you get direct access to Apple experts for answers by phone and access to Web-based resources. If your iPod or its accessories need serviced, Apple-certified technicians will repair it or provide a replacement. The plan is available for all iPod models within their one-year limited warranty.
um, albums on ITMS are $9.98.
if you HAVE to rip them without DRM you can burn them to an audio CD and re-rip it as MP3 or whatever. people will say the audio quality will drop, but it's still possible. you could also use the digi outs on those nice G5s and record to something digital (or right into another machine) and bla bla bla bla..... the point is that the Apple DRM is not a 100% lockdown, but it makes piracy a bit of a hassle. in that way i think they were realistic about the idea of software based security.
on a more serious note, is there a legal definition of what is spam? i consider anything about M$ Windows based products to be spam because i use a Mac, but i am sure to somebody it may be useful information.
i will admit the only things i have bought from their store are tracks not on the CDs or records..... i guess i add to the numbers of people buying single songs.... I also think i am old enough (though only 29) to still have a desire for artwork. that's why i prefer to buy LPs as opposed to CDs. I still look at a CD and think how much i prefer the larger layout of the LP format..... that being said i am sure that people raised on CDs will see it as less big of a deal, and the next generation will think we are all looney.
Even if i lost 10 lbs i would stick to the "no dairy" plan because it had done more for my asthma and allergies than any meds have in my whole life (i'm 29 now)..... When i was little i was typic sever chronic asthma kid with midnight visits to the E.R. and all that... i could do sports and play but when it hit it hit hard. Till i quit dairy (i was 27, so i didnt outgrow anything) i was going through a rescue inhaler LITERALLY every 2 weeks, and was at the max doses of all the meds i was on. Since quitting dairy (within a month or so) those inhalers now last me about 4 months and i only use them as a precaution before i go out for a run..... 3 years ago a jog to the end of the block would make me wheeeze, now i can run at least 6 miles (my knees hurt around then and i stop)....
I know i'll get flamed for pissing off all the pizza and McDonalds eating nrrds out there, but if you have suffered with asthma, allergies, weight or anything like that you life you know how much it's sucks... try going vegan for at least 2 weeks straight and see if anything happens. I tried it on a whim and was so shocked at how well it worked i am only angry i did not try this sooner.
NOBODY MAKES MONEY FROM YOU GOING VEGAN. It is not a scam.... it gets easier to eat a vegan diet every day. i still eat crappy sugary cereal all the time (with Soy Milk) and french fries and peanut chews and waterice and whatnot, i am not a granola munching hippie. I seriously feel healthier at 29 than i have ever before in my life.
As for Alien, it was awesome.... if you don't like the movie, then you might not like it no matter what, but i was 5 when it first came out and to see it in a theater with the bonus stuff in it was fun. It was amusing in a way with the 1979 technology, like flourescent lights that stutter when they come on and computers that make beeps and clickity clack noises. All that aside, I WISH MORE MOVIES USED MORE REAL MODELS AND LESS CG! Generally i am not one to gripe about CG, but the few scenes where the alien is hiding and they pan right over it
no, it's not the scaries movie of all time, but if you are going to nitpick on every detail of a movie, then you are no fun anyway. even so i have seen this movie a few times on TV/DVD/VHS and knew mostly was happening when..... it was still sooooooo worth my $8.00
i realize by Alien3 or Ressurection the stuff they had the aliens do just could not all be puppets anymore, but dang they really are so much creepier......
on a side note KILL BILL used no CG in the movie, all wires, rubber, plastic and 400 gallons of fake blood. nice to see some people keeping it old school.
1. Mac OS X v10.3
2. Mac OS X v10.3 Family
3. iPod
between that and the iTunes music store (1) i bet there will be some upcoming article about how Apple users seem to be more honest than M$ users... and happier too.
(1) Before the release of iTunes for Windows, Apple was selling more songs than all of the other online music sellers. That is impressive considering the actual number of Mac users.
what software stopped working within a year? i guess if i were a M$ windows user i would have till 2006 to worry about those pesky OS upgrades.
until i got my G4 400MHz a few years ago i was using an 8100 that i eventually put a Sonnet G3 250MHz card in..... it was Nubus so other expansion was very limited (no USB, limited vid cards etc)..... anyway it worked adequately for a while.
Right now i am typing on the G4 400MHz. I upgraded the video card and when ram was cheap i got it up to a gig. I fully intend to install 10.3 when my copy shows up tomorrow, and from everything i have heard... the machine should actually run faster than it does today.
I still use a 7600 with the stock PPC604e at work running 9.1 and that works fine. I would like a faster machine, and some web pages make it choke but hey........
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i don't understand? do you mean newly written software might at some point utilize features built into the new operating system? THOSE BASTARDS!
If you don't want to upgrade, then don't. Many many many people still use OS9. At some point there will be less choice for web browsers supporting the latest features, but most everything else will work as it does today and did 2 years ago. My mom still runs OS9 and she can still check email, and she still will after 10.3 hits the shelves tomorrow.
In terms of running the NEW os and running OLD apps, that's generally fine. OS X has this thing called classic mode and i can run old OS9 software pretty ok. Till Photoshop, Quark, Dreamweaver etc upgraded, i could run them in classic with very acceptable results. For example, i did layout for a few full color CDs, used Photoshop to tweak the graphics and Quark to do the layout. Took the files to the plant and got back CDs looking 100% as i wanted. I was able to keep working on websites using Dreamweaver without rebooting to OS 9. I really had no problems using Dreamweaver in classic mode.
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That's why a lot of stations that are self serve remove those clips so you have to hold the pump on (and not wander off or sit in your car for 60 seconds), I think the cell phone thing is just a precaution. There have been a few cases reported here on Slashdot of Nokia phones exploding.... i don't see why that happening at the pump might not create the idea situation for an explosion.
I have seen people smoke at a gas pump, and as far as i know they gas station survived..... it really requires an idea situation to explode, but it's just not something worth screwing with IMHO. That being said, using a phone (like a speedpass) to connect to my account before i start the pump seems fine to me. I live in a city and all the pumps are pre-pay, so you would be beep beeping your cell phone before the nozzle is removed from the pump anyway.
the one standard 12inch model is 800MHZ and the two 14inch models are 933MHz and 1GHz....... i wonder if it's a heat issue of the G4, or if they are trying to make the 12inch an entry model? Personally if i bought one i would go for 12inch just because of the portability factor. The slower processor makes me wonder though. I guess we will have to wait to see what actual G4 chip they have? That being said they seem like a decent upgrade and stay in the same price brackets. This seems to blur the line between 12inch ibook and powerbook even more.......
iTunes can be minimized to a little block to control the player. i don't know what does it on the windows version.... does it still have the "traffic light" on the top left? try there. Also for mac users(soon for windows?), there are hacks to itunes and something called "iTunes remote" that has been out for a long time... it lets you set up all kinds on configurations to control iTunes. For example one was a very thin strip that could run along the top or bottom of your screen. i have not used it in at least a year, but it exists and worked well... i just don't need it on a desktop with 2 CRTs.
I belive it was Wired magazine a few months ago compared Schools and Universities and how they view their student's online rights.
For an example of a positive school, MIT supported the student(s) that started the bonsai kitty website after review from their legal department. Until they had explicity documentation that the webiste was somehow illegal or violated something or other, they allowed the site to remain up. I'm sure they were not happy to be painted as supporters of kitten abuse, but they were smart enough to see the real issue of free speech.
a bold statement from an anonymous post.
yeah if you read his article he seems to have a big problem with Apple "dissing" wma support...... No matter what you think about AAC vs MP3 vs OGG etc, wma is NOT a standard, the iPod doesn't play them, they are a hassle to play on a mac (and *nix?)... why should Apple support that?
Sounds like they are just venting. There have been rumblings of M$ getting into the business of selling music somehow. Apple's store seems somewhat to be working and keeping people happy on both sides, and now got tied into AOL and in promotions with Pepsi.
Oddly this week somebody from Apple said the ITMS's goal is not to make a lot of money, but somehting to help sell iPods. I am guessing if somebody had a good music store that supported iPods (read NOT wma DRM files) then Apple might not have bothered? But without that store previously existing, they risked being knocked off the top spot for MP3 players.
macintouch.com has great forums on Mac issues, i would say look/ask there or some of the Mac tech help mailing lists.
i know some older motherboards required you to hold the motherboard reset button for about 30 seconds if you ever pull the PRam battery out.
back to your first issue of manually jumpstarting a powersupply, dunno. sorry. just figured iw ould mention the motherboard reset button because i know somebody that got a lot of stress from not knowing that.
i know AIM off and on would tell you "your buddy is typing"..... i don't know if it worked with certain versions or is part of another feature or what, but it's been in AIM for some time now too. Not to dismiss the other older ones, but AIM is so huge that they can't ignore it... and it's still in popular use. I don't think it shows up on Adium (for OS X) or other 3rd party apps, but it does for AOL's AIM app.
The G3 chips that Apple still uses (ibooks) have been made by IBM for some time now.
Ithe rumor mills claim great things in store for the IBM G3s in future generations (including altivec support) and ever increased efficiency. I would guess in the next year or so, when Apple roughly predicted a G5 powerbook, we will see everything switch to G5 or these next generation G3 chips.
These super efficient and powerful G3 chips might lead to more fun machines like the fanless cube and iMac... let alone great news for ibook users.
when you think about it, how often do you see something on slashdot about a new linux kernal being out, or a patch to this or that. it is kind of the same. if you checked dischord's website off and on you would know, or they send promos to college/indie radio and zines well in adcance. they also run ads in indie music oriented magazines. also if you go to an indie music store they often have a chalkboard/whiteboard telling you upcoming releases for the next month or two or three. we did it when i worked at a record store. i still do a show at a college radio station and we generally get records/CD well in advance of them being on the street to promote them. also the people that talk to the labels know that a record is in the works months before it's out. that info makes it to the web now, you just have to read sites that focus on that kind of news.
yes, i realize Fugazi breaks all the rules in the sense of being unique in their hugeness, yet total control and integrity of their music and it's distribution. Their releases are sold in Tower, Sam Goody etc and if you shop there, i am sure they do not promote them like some dark little record store would. The same way you can walk into CompUSA and not miss a new version of windows being out but would never know that there is a new BSD download out. ya know? i have literally never used a windows machine for more than 3 minutes, but i probably know what the current OS version is.
i'm not trying to be a jerk, just making a point drawing parallels between music and technology.
maybe i am not following what you specifically are speaking of, but you can buy diagnostic code readers for most any car right now. they have been available for years. any Pep Boys, or auto parts place will sell those.
I suppose this means the auto makers could lock down the ability to read those codes (DMCA protected code?) and then only lease their readers to dealership run repair shops or sell them to everyone else for $900,000........ if they are FORCED to sell them at all.....
in the same way i guess they could make their own magic bolts and screws and patent their magical "parts holding on apparatus". i know plenty of cars and motorcycles require special tools, i suppose they could make it so only they sell those tools for, say ten years or till they don't care, and then let the patent loosen up. they could sell these magic tools for $99,000 or lease them to their dealership shops for $5 a year.
does this happen now? why not? not that i want to screw us all, but does this not happen because the law would not support it, or the public won't have it or are the auto makers just not interested in such control? would people just buy another vehicle? i have had to buy a few special tools for my motorcycles over the years, but in a 20+ year old bike i can't imagine Old Man Suzuki worries too much about control sales that valve tool. i know for a fact that car dealers make most of their money from the repair shop. hence the push for bumper to bumper coverage, they don't care if you pay them or the parent company, either way it keeps them working.
there are some bands that get big from writing songs and touring. the 50/50 split is nothing new, and has worked for many labels and artists for years. Labels like Dischord, Lookout!, Kill Rock Stars have used this model for years with bands like Fugazi, The Donnas, Greenday etc.
It works well for small labels and bands because the label and the band split profits 50/50 and in the early days the bands and the labels both have a real reason to make the records sell. when the bands get huge, the bands make a lot of money this way. that's a better percentage take than any major label could afford.
no, labels like that won't dreate the next brittnany spears, but how many of them exist, and who really want to sell their soul and suck that much anyway.
if you got the same issue 9 times in a row that doesnt seem to happen to anyone else.... i would evaluate what you do with your machine. kind of like how 90% of the people with hinge problems on their Ti-Books were dropping them hinge side down in their bags. i feel your pain, but something seems amiss that's not 100% Apple's issue since those 9 ibooks would span a few revisions. i know one guy that had one of the first ice-book ibooks in the Philly area and his worked 100% till he stepped on the screen recently. i know people that have had them in their bags while riding a bike and been hit by a car and they still work 100%. i know peopel that have dropped them out of bed or rolled onto them a few times in the night. they are a pretty well built machine.
on macslash this story talks about the crazy speeds they are claiming on the G5 running Gentoo Linux. Says they can not go superfast because of fan control issues still unresolved, but yikes! too good to be true?