20 mpg is shameful. I regularly got around 32 mpg in my 1985 Celica. In 1992, after the car had aged, and had not been maintained entirely perfectly. Here we are decades later talking about 20 mpg being "not too bad". Makes me ill.
Rather than fucking around with flying cars, I would really like to see some real attention paid to developing alternatives that might stand some chance of softening the blow when we get past peak oil production. But no, we seem determined to find more ingeneous ways to consume a non-renewable, clearly finite, resource.
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I really hope DVDs/SVCDs of the laserdisc version get pushed on popular bittorrent and p2p networks the day this comes out.
Where have you been?? These have been available on numerous torrents and other p2p's for years.
The whole line of argument in this thread is self-serving crap.
If I had mod points, you'd get one, even as an AC. This is the most succinct argument I've seen against all of the so-called "reasons" for why it's supposedly OK to pirate^H^H^H^H^H^H steal^H^H^H^H copy music. Every single argument is a thinly veiled attempt to justify something that the poster knows is wrong, but is bound and determined to do anyway.
Sony's back to being stupid and evil because of ATRAC3 in their iPod "killer"? That PS3 thread had me confused for a sec...
Seriously, did anyone not see this coming? ATRAC3, while technically competent, is still a Sony-proprietary scheme. How many other manufacturers even bothered to license it? Three?
I got into an argument with someone the other day about this very unit. This person actually believed that Sony actually "gets it" WRT consumer gear. He honestly thought that Sony had some chance in hell of putting a dent in the iPod's dominance with this piece of shit. The truly surreal/funny part was that this argument actually took place in an Apple store.
You still have to make the initial call over a phone line. I'm positive.
Nope.
With the 1st gen units, if you've used the 9th Tee card and have the right revision of the SW (1.3), using ethernet is as simple as providing the right prefix for dialing (something like *#401) and it'll do the rest.
With series 2 machines, the USB-ethernet adaptor is recognised, and you're good to go. No hacks needed. I've never had my TiVo connected to a land-line.
The only time you need a landline for a TiVo any more is a virgin 1.2 unit, which should be quite rare these days..
Now, with iTunes for Windows, you can share your iPod between Windows and Mac. This is because iTunes for Windows knows how to deal with HFS volumes. But unfortunately, MusicMatch for Windows does not know how to do this.
iTunes for Mac can deal with a FAT32 iPod, but iTunes for Windows cannot deal with an HFS iPod. This is true even if you've got XPlay installed, which includes the HFS driver. iTunes/Win requires a Windows formatted iPod. Period.
I know this because until that fateful Thursday, I had a Mac iPod and used XPlay to use it on Windows, and felt all sick and dirty having to reformat my precious to FAT32... My Macs (running OSX 10.2.6/10.3) were all perfectly happy with a FAT32 iPod after the reformat, BTW.
Disclaimer: I never installed MM, so I don't know what fun bits it added to the equation here, but I doubt it does anything interesting. AFAIK, MM needs a FAT32 iPod (no HFS drivers included).
Just because I leave the front door open does not mean that anyone can enter and take what they want from my house. Same as my computer. The action of downloading is at question not making the article available.
Nonsense.
To use your analogy, if you leave the front door of your house open (while you're away), you should expect that someone will come in, and if you're lucky, take something.
Your situation gets significantly worse if you have, say, a handgun under your pillow, and some random neighborhood kid comes in, finds it, and shoots himself (or someone else).
The issue here is that you've knowingly left your front door open, making you at least partially liable for the harm that occurs as a result (indirect or otherwise). Same thing if you leave the keys in your car and someone takes it and mows down a bunch of pedestrians with it. In either case, you cannot claim innocence simply because you didn't do the deed. You've made a substantial contribution in the commission of a crime, and you would be expected to pay for that crime.
First is that Applescript is great for automating Applescript-aware applications (including Finder) without having to either brute-force it, or write whatever function you're after yourself. For instance (I'm working from memory, and it's been a while since I've worked with this stuff, so it's probably not syntactically correct):
tell "itunes" play "Macintosh HD:MP3 Collection:some tune.mp3" end tell
...and AppleScript takes care of all of the fiddly details of how to communicate with the application.
Second, this can be done remotely, assuming that AS-remoting is enabled at the target. Which would get really tricky to do with Perl or Python or even Expect.
IIRC, it would just be a matter of changing the tell to something like tell "itunes" on "Kenny's Macintosh". The rest of the script would remain the same. But then, debugging is a real nightmare...
Hrm... the odds are pretty good, I guess, when my statements are modified to try to make me look wrong. The subject, although admittedly off-topic, was NPR, not the BBC. Putting the "[the BBC]" changes the meaning of my statement somewhat.
Granted, there was apparently some work being done at the BBC (although, with comments like "Yay, the legal issues have been resolved. We now have rights to all the of the BBC's radio output.", I doubt that it was an official effort), but the last update was over 8 months ago to announce the cessation of the streams. The update before that was in September 2002. Before that, June 2002. The updates were infrequent, to say the least; the project was certainly not what I'd call "on the radar". NPR, on the other hand, as far as I'm aware has never even experimented with it (Ogg) openly.
While I don't particularly like the use of proprietary streaming formats, I do recognise that they're using what's likely to reach a majority of their audience. Ideally, they could use MP3's, but I suspect that you're probably talking more along the lines of Ogg, which, let's be honest, doesn't even appear on the radar for these guys (nor most of their audience).
So, yeah, you can write letters to them to make your displeasure known, and to try to convince them to use a more free-software-friendly format. But to characterise the use of RM/WM as a misuse of taxpayer money is just wrong. The fact is that NPR is not directly government funded, nor has it been for years. From the 2000 NPR annual report:
NPR receives no direct general operating support from any national or local government source. NPR does compete along with other producers for specific project grants from federally funded entities such as the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the National Science Foundation and the National Endowments for the Arts and the Humanities.
(source - NPR Annual Report - page 21. Yes, it's a pdf, STFU). The report goes on to put the amount of money coming from those organizations at less than 2% of NPR's revenues.
This line of argument assumes that the new formats (SACD and DVD-Audio) don't live up to the "exagerated (sic) marketing claims". That's not the case here. SACD and (to a lesser extent) DVD-A do sound much better than CD's, to say nothing of MP3/AAC. Multichannel, in it simplest implementation, allows for the entire sound stage to be faithfully reproduced. In short, it does work, and it is a big deal.
For the entire history of the modern music industry, producing and distributing music has worked this way. Nearly early every format upgrade has offered benefits that a fair majority of the listening audience has found worth paying for. It happened with LP's vs 78's, HiFi Stereo vs. Mono, Cassette vs 8-track, CD vs. Vinyl, etc.
Even where audio quality is not a central benefit, form-factor, features, and convenience weigh heavily in the adoption of a new format. I doubt anyone would argue that the adoption of cassettes vs. open-reel was prompted by the audio quality of cassettes. Likewise, MiniDisc enjoys a qualified success despite the fact that it is noticably lower quality than CD. And of course, there's MP3/AAC/OGG that continue to reinforce the idea that convenience can trump quality as an incentive to adoption.
The point is, the music industry periodically re-releases titles on formats that either sound better or offer benefits that previous formats do not, in an attempt to generate profits. (Admittedly, it doesn't always work. Anyone remember ELCassette?) Show me an industry that doesn't do something similar - cars, computers, even soap for goodness sakes - all of them attempt to do some kind of upgrade/value-add to get people to buy the new one. Welcome to capitalism. Or would you try and tell me that you still listen to music on LP's and post to Slashdot with a VIC-20?
Fact is, most people don't own systems to take advantage of multichannel and fidelity of the new formats. Hell, most people probably couldn't even hear the difference, let alone care.
No. This is the same argument that went around when CD's first made the scene. For a time (before I heard CD for the first time), I was even a proponent of this notion, and believed that there was no point in replacing my LP's with CD's. It seems a bit silly now, looking back on it.
That's all highly dependent on the equipment in use. My TiBook has that famously weak antenna, but it still gets a solid signal anywhere in the house, and a little outside. My iBook gets a usable signal almost to the street (300 feet or so). Oddly, my AirPort WAP seems to put out a signal with its internal antenna(s) than my LinkSys (1.1) WAP does.
Grow up, child! Even if it was sarcastic or in a wicked way ment to be 'funny', it's too pathetic for words.
Personally, I thought it was funny. I've worked for the empire, and it really is a good place to work. A number of folks in the replies have mentioned the 'stigma of working for' Microsoft, but when you're there, you don't feel it. It's like Gates' own version of the reality distortion field.
So, lighten up... it was meant to be funny, why not just take it that way?
Fun programming exercise?
Interesting engineering challenge?
A way to show off mad skillz?
A way to develop those skills?
To make statement regarding bloat in modern systems?
It's art?
Because it's there?
... or maybe you'd care to define "better use"?
You're right though, I wouldn't want to run a web browser on there to do anything 'real', but this is the sort of thing that'll get me to haul the old SX64 out of the closet once more (yes, I am one of those "sentimental geeks"). Not because it's some kind of newfound productivity. And not because I neeed another webserver.
Whatever they want it to be. The inputs are either Firewire (iLink, ieee1394, whatever), and analog. There's not even an input for TOSLink/SPDIF - those are output only. Which means that you'd be fine connecting your hd-satellite receiver to it (via firewire), but if the infamous broadcast flag has been set, no recording for you. Yes, the analog-hole may still exist, but that will probably respond to Macrovision and prevent recording (from dvd/vhs/whatever). Besides, recording an analog signal on one of these kinda defeats the purpose, no?
All of which makes it a very expensive way to archive your home-videos, which you can't share unless your intended recipient can play back blue dvd's. Yes, you can record a red-dvd, but again, it defeats the purpose; you can get one of those for about $1000 or less nowadays...
Aside from the highlights (that I rarely used anyway), I don't miss the Googlebar. I just set the search engine to be Google, enter my search terms in the address bar, tab, enter, profit. Is there some additional functionality (of the Googlebar) that I'm missing?
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Rather than fucking around with flying cars, I would really like to see some real attention paid to developing alternatives that might stand some chance of softening the blow when we get past peak oil production. But no, we seem determined to find more ingeneous ways to consume a non-renewable, clearly finite, resource.
Where have you been?? These have been available on numerous torrents and other p2p's for years.
Oh, and your post isn't that funny. Sorry.
If I had mod points, you'd get one, even as an AC. This is the most succinct argument I've seen against all of the so-called "reasons" for why it's supposedly OK to pirate^H^H^H^H^H^H steal^H^H^H^H copy music. Every single argument is a thinly veiled attempt to justify something that the poster knows is wrong, but is bound and determined to do anyway.
Seriously, did anyone not see this coming? ATRAC3, while technically competent, is still a Sony-proprietary scheme. How many other manufacturers even bothered to license it? Three?
I got into an argument with someone the other day about this very unit. This person actually believed that Sony actually "gets it" WRT consumer gear. He honestly thought that Sony had some chance in hell of putting a dent in the iPod's dominance with this piece of shit. The truly surreal/funny part was that this argument actually took place in an Apple store.
I have a Mac, you insensitive clod...
Actually, the Slimp3 does do shoutcast/icecast streams. Works very well...
Nope.
With the 1st gen units, if you've used the 9th Tee card and have the right revision of the SW (1.3), using ethernet is as simple as providing the right prefix for dialing (something like *#401) and it'll do the rest.
With series 2 machines, the USB-ethernet adaptor is recognised, and you're good to go. No hacks needed. I've never had my TiVo connected to a land-line.
The only time you need a landline for a TiVo any more is a virgin 1.2 unit, which should be quite rare these days..
Well, at least that'll require a helluva lot less jello...
iTunes for Mac can deal with a FAT32 iPod, but iTunes for Windows cannot deal with an HFS iPod. This is true even if you've got XPlay installed, which includes the HFS driver. iTunes/Win requires a Windows formatted iPod. Period.
I know this because until that fateful Thursday, I had a Mac iPod and used XPlay to use it on Windows, and felt all sick and dirty having to reformat my precious to FAT32... My Macs (running OSX 10.2.6/10.3) were all perfectly happy with a FAT32 iPod after the reformat, BTW.
Disclaimer: I never installed MM, so I don't know what fun bits it added to the equation here, but I doubt it does anything interesting. AFAIK, MM needs a FAT32 iPod (no HFS drivers included).
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Nonsense.
To use your analogy, if you leave the front door of your house open (while you're away), you should expect that someone will come in, and if you're lucky, take something.
Your situation gets significantly worse if you have, say, a handgun under your pillow, and some random neighborhood kid comes in, finds it, and shoots himself (or someone else).
The issue here is that you've knowingly left your front door open, making you at least partially liable for the harm that occurs as a result (indirect or otherwise). Same thing if you leave the keys in your car and someone takes it and mows down a bunch of pedestrians with it. In either case, you cannot claim innocence simply because you didn't do the deed. You've made a substantial contribution in the commission of a crime, and you would be expected to pay for that crime.
First is that Applescript is great for automating Applescript-aware applications (including Finder) without having to either brute-force it, or write whatever function you're after yourself. For instance (I'm working from memory, and it's been a while since I've worked with this stuff, so it's probably not syntactically correct):
Second, this can be done remotely, assuming that AS-remoting is enabled at the target. Which would get really tricky to do with Perl or Python or even Expect.
IIRC, it would just be a matter of changing the tell to something like tell "itunes" on "Kenny's Macintosh". The rest of the script would remain the same. But then, debugging is a real nightmare...
Granted, there was apparently some work being done at the BBC (although, with comments like "Yay, the legal issues have been resolved. We now have rights to all the of the BBC's radio output.", I doubt that it was an official effort), but the last update was over 8 months ago to announce the cessation of the streams. The update before that was in September 2002. Before that, June 2002. The updates were infrequent, to say the least; the project was certainly not what I'd call "on the radar". NPR, on the other hand, as far as I'm aware has never even experimented with it (Ogg) openly.
So, yeah, you can write letters to them to make your displeasure known, and to try to convince them to use a more free-software-friendly format. But to characterise the use of RM/WM as a misuse of taxpayer money is just wrong. The fact is that NPR is not directly government funded, nor has it been for years. From the 2000 NPR annual report:
(source - NPR Annual Report - page 21. Yes, it's a pdf, STFU). The report goes on to put the amount of money coming from those organizations at less than 2% of NPR's revenues.
Isn't running an already-printed page through a printer a violation of the DMCA or something?
For the entire history of the modern music industry, producing and distributing music has worked this way. Nearly early every format upgrade has offered benefits that a fair majority of the listening audience has found worth paying for. It happened with LP's vs 78's, HiFi Stereo vs. Mono, Cassette vs 8-track, CD vs. Vinyl, etc.
Even where audio quality is not a central benefit, form-factor, features, and convenience weigh heavily in the adoption of a new format. I doubt anyone would argue that the adoption of cassettes vs. open-reel was prompted by the audio quality of cassettes. Likewise, MiniDisc enjoys a qualified success despite the fact that it is noticably lower quality than CD. And of course, there's MP3/AAC/OGG that continue to reinforce the idea that convenience can trump quality as an incentive to adoption.
The point is, the music industry periodically re-releases titles on formats that either sound better or offer benefits that previous formats do not, in an attempt to generate profits. (Admittedly, it doesn't always work. Anyone remember ELCassette?) Show me an industry that doesn't do something similar - cars, computers, even soap for goodness sakes - all of them attempt to do some kind of upgrade/value-add to get people to buy the new one. Welcome to capitalism. Or would you try and tell me that you still listen to music on LP's and post to Slashdot with a VIC-20?
No. This is the same argument that went around when CD's first made the scene. For a time (before I heard CD for the first time), I was even a proponent of this notion, and believed that there was no point in replacing my LP's with CD's. It seems a bit silly now, looking back on it.
That's all highly dependent on the equipment in use. My TiBook has that famously weak antenna, but it still gets a solid signal anywhere in the house, and a little outside. My iBook gets a usable signal almost to the street (300 feet or so). Oddly, my AirPort WAP seems to put out a signal with its internal antenna(s) than my LinkSys (1.1) WAP does.
My $0.02... make change as needed....
Grow up, child! Even if it was sarcastic or in a wicked way ment to be 'funny', it's too pathetic for words.
Personally, I thought it was funny. I've worked for the empire, and it really is a good place to work. A number of folks in the replies have mentioned the 'stigma of working for' Microsoft, but when you're there, you don't feel it. It's like Gates' own version of the reality distortion field.
So, lighten up... it was meant to be funny, why not just take it that way?
Fun programming exercise?
Interesting engineering challenge?
A way to show off mad skillz?
A way to develop those skills?
To make statement regarding bloat in modern systems?
It's art?
Because it's there?
... or maybe you'd care to define "better use"?
You're right though, I wouldn't want to run a web browser on there to do anything 'real', but this is the sort of thing that'll get me to haul the old SX64 out of the closet once more (yes, I am one of those "sentimental geeks"). Not because it's some kind of newfound productivity. And not because I neeed another webserver.
Simply because it's fun.
If you're getting all your music on Aquisition, it's a little dishonest to try to claim the record companies are gouging you...
Whatever they want it to be. The inputs are either Firewire (iLink, ieee1394, whatever), and analog. There's not even an input for TOSLink/SPDIF - those are output only. Which means that you'd be fine connecting your hd-satellite receiver to it (via firewire), but if the infamous broadcast flag has been set, no recording for you. Yes, the analog-hole may still exist, but that will probably respond to Macrovision and prevent recording (from dvd/vhs/whatever). Besides, recording an analog signal on one of these kinda defeats the purpose, no?
All of which makes it a very expensive way to archive your home-videos, which you can't share unless your intended recipient can play back blue dvd's. Yes, you can record a red-dvd, but again, it defeats the purpose; you can get one of those for about $1000 or less nowadays...
Is to use good-ol cygwin and set up the sshd on the windows machine. I do this to all my boxen, and it works great.
Yes, but it's still Mozilla on WINDOWS
Aside from the highlights (that I rarely used anyway), I don't miss the Googlebar. I just set the search engine to be Google, enter my search terms in the address bar, tab, enter, profit. Is there some additional functionality (of the Googlebar) that I'm missing?
But, that's an interesting hair-trigger ya got there...