I just ran "Software Update" and saw the iTunes update. SU's description of the patch included:
"iTunes 4.0.1 includes a number of performace and network access enhancements, and only allows music sharing between computers using iTunes 4.0.1 or later...".
If you tear a note in half, burn both edges of the tear and take both halves to different banks, claiming that your money got burned, will they each exchange the half-notes for real ones?
Question: I have some currency that was damaged. My bank will not exchange it for undamaged currency. What can I do?
Answer: You will be interested to know that the Bureau of Engraving and Printing (BEP), thorugh its Office of Currency Standards, processes all reimbursement for damaged United States currency. They decide the redemption value of torn or otherwise unfit currency by measuring the portions of the notes submitted. Generally, they reimburse the full face value if clearly more than one-half of the original note remains. Currency fragments measuring less than one-half are not redeemable.
Yes, the Cybiko is really cool but also basicly dead. IFAIK they stopped making the hardware about a year ago.
IMO they really missed the boat. It had a ton of potential for hacking but the company was never really open with the internals. I had one set up to pick mp3s and play them through my stereo but never did much with it after that. I also invisioned an add on to the Palm that would work them to work together but that never got past the drawing board.
Another decent technology gone because it didn't make a ton of money. The Cybiko now joins the ranks of the Newton and Sony Magic Link as cool stuff gone (clearly the two examples are vastly superior but you get the idea).
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Saint Fnordius said: If Apple should ever decide to kill the.mac service, who do you turn to?
What, like they killed off Hypercard (or HC 4.0 in QT), mklinux, Newton or OpenDoc? One of the things that pisses me off about Apple is that when they decide to kill off a project they make sure it's dead. Port hypercard to Carbon or release the source code: forget it.
When the winds change and Steve Jobs decides to get out of the.Mac business you'll be SOL. If you like.Mac then you better hope some builds a version independent of Apple.
Is there someplace practical one could host a site like LyricFind and be safe from the MPA et al. BTW, since LyricFind is in Canada do they really have anything to fear?
You're right and I should've be clearer. Since Apple controls the format and player there is a de facto DRM system built in. It would be pretty easy for Apple to add support for certificates, restricted copying, etc. Thanks for clearing up what I said.
What makes you so sure that they won't have a proprietary, encrypted format so that you can only play Universal music on Apple hardware?
Quicktime has some pretty strong DRM built in so I'd assume that would be their choice. Macs and MS Windows win, linux loses again (which sucks). BTW, IFAIK the iPod can't play QT files (just MP3, MP3 VBR, WAV, AIFF, and Audible) but changes to the firmware might change that.
Does this mean that Remote Desktop (single user with WinXP Pro or mutliple users with W2k Server) would also be illegal?
Say a company has their head office in MI, remote offices in other states, uses MS Terminal Services and their users remotely access servers outside of said company's network wouldn't this violate the law?
Or if someone at work uses an RDP client to connect to his WinXP Pro box at home and checks his email [remotely] wouldn't this also violate the law?
Tastes change over time though, the NeXT cube used to be the sexiest back in the mid-1990's
NeXT invented "sexy" computers. I still remember the first time I saw that black magnesium cube and thought this is the coolest thing I've ever seen in computers. Then I saw NeXTStep, an OS to match it's case. I miss both.
Have you ever heard someone talk about an x86 box this way? To many NeXT users even the beloved iMac will not be missed as much.
Getting kids to sell whatever to support their school is just plain wrong. It seems the bulk of the profits go to the private companies organizing these scams^H^H^H^H^H benefit drives. My advice is to vocally boycott such things. I'd [as a parent] would much rather cut a check for $5 or $10 than see a school pimping out my kid for a 3% profit margin. Kids are in school to learn how to read, write, create and discover not to rip off their family via a sleazy MLM scam.
If George II wasn't dumping $100 billion into Iraq over the next two years maybe schools wouldn't have to resort to crap like this.
If it can be changed to use FreeDB instead of CDDB I'd be pretty happy.
Don't bet on it. To use CDDB one must agree not to support any other similar systems like FreeDB.
From "Why freedb.org" at freedb.org:
As Escient has changed the terms of licence for accessing CDDB, some programmers complained that the new licence includes certain terms that threatens them in a way they cannot accept:
If you want to access CDDB, you are not allowed to access any other CDDB-like database (this one, for example)...
Besides from what I've read in the past Philip's net radios require some hacking to get them to work with personal streaming servers. Changing anything past the volume seems to be controlled by Philips. It's too bad since I suspect they could sell a lot more if people could modify the onboard software.
A man and woman just meet and are talking. Man: "Will you sleep with me?" Woman: "No way." Man: "How about for a million dollars?" The woman thinks about it. Woman: "Ok." Man: "How about for $20?" Woman: "$20? What do you think I am?" Man: "I know what you are. Now we're just haggling over the price."
Being a whore is bad enough, but being a cheap whore is worse. Tell Dr. Pepper to shove it. RatBastard has got it right.
I've got an rev. b iMac (the almost-original bondi blue style) with a dead monitor. As near as I can tell the electronics are all fine, but without a working display it won't boot. I'd love to get it running again, minimallly as a "hidden in the closet" server, or better still by finding someone with another dead iMac with a working display where I could merge the parts together into one working machine.
But since just fixing it doesn't seem feasible (a new CRT has been quoted to me for around $500, so that's not an option), and I haven't been able to find anyone for the "franken-mac" idea, my fiance has been trying to get me to throw it away instead, and sooner or later I'm sure she'll have her way on this one.
Your iMac seems a good candidate for a transplant to a Marathon iRack 1U case (the $400 price tag, IMO, seems too much but the reviews are very good). Also there's the 1U rack mount case conversion ($40 for instructions but claims that the conversion costs are $50).
I guess the reason why is that you'd need to make a glass master to create CDs via pressing. The question is there a semiportable CD mastering/pressing system?
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From U.S. Treasury - FAQs: Buying, Selling & Redeeming Currency:
Base Unit and Accessories (500x500)
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The last three were grabbed from The News Market. Maybe someone with an account can post the full size copies?
IMO they really missed the boat. It had a ton of potential for hacking but the company was never really open with the internals. I had one set up to pick mp3s and play them through my stereo but never did much with it after that. I also invisioned an add on to the Palm that would work them to work together but that never got past the drawing board.
Another decent technology gone because it didn't make a ton of money. The Cybiko now joins the ranks of the Newton and Sony Magic Link as cool stuff gone (clearly the two examples are vastly superior but you get the idea).
Saint Fnordius said: .mac service, who do you turn to?
If Apple should ever decide to kill the
What, like they killed off Hypercard (or HC 4.0 in QT), mklinux, Newton or OpenDoc? One of the things that pisses me off about Apple is that when they decide to kill off a project they make sure it's dead. Port hypercard to Carbon or release the source code: forget it.
When the winds change and Steve Jobs decides to get out of the .Mac business you'll be SOL. If you like .Mac then you better hope some builds a version independent of Apple.
Is there someplace practical one could host a site like LyricFind and be safe from the MPA et al. BTW, since LyricFind is in Canada do they really have anything to fear?
From the same episode of futurama.
He also invented how to keep human heads alive in jars.
infosync.no has some good examples of the pictures taken at day and night with the Zire 71
day photo
night photo
Infosync's full review of the Zire 71
Sorry, forgot to mention that.
In case $1800USD is too rich for your blood they do offer a greatly stripped down version for $20 and there's a free demo (registration required).
You're right and I should've be clearer. Since Apple controls the format and player there is a de facto DRM system built in. It would be pretty easy for Apple to add support for certificates, restricted copying, etc. Thanks for clearing up what I said.
Quicktime has some pretty strong DRM built in so I'd assume that would be their choice. Macs and MS Windows win, linux loses again (which sucks). BTW, IFAIK the iPod can't play QT files (just MP3, MP3 VBR, WAV, AIFF, and Audible) but changes to the firmware might change that.
Does this mean that Remote Desktop (single user with WinXP Pro or mutliple users with W2k Server) would also be illegal?
Say a company has their head office in MI, remote offices in other states, uses MS Terminal Services and their users remotely access servers outside of said company's network wouldn't this violate the law?
Or if someone at work uses an RDP client to connect to his WinXP Pro box at home and checks his email [remotely] wouldn't this also violate the law?
My company would be royally screwed by this.
pherris
Damn straight and remember "Don't drive angry".
NeXT invented "sexy" computers. I still remember the first time I saw that black magnesium cube and thought this is the coolest thing I've ever seen in computers. Then I saw NeXTStep, an OS to match it's case. I miss both.
Have you ever heard someone talk about an x86 box this way? To many NeXT users even the beloved iMac will not be missed as much.
Jeeze, with the quality of CGI today they could get Christopher Reeves to fill couldn't they?
If George II wasn't dumping $100 billion into Iraq over the next two years maybe schools wouldn't have to resort to crap like this.
From "Why freedb.org" at freedb.org:
Besides from what I've read in the past Philip's net radios require some hacking to get them to work with personal streaming servers. Changing anything past the volume seems to be controlled by Philips. It's too bad since I suspect they could sell a lot more if people could modify the onboard software.Scientist making claim lives in isolation in the cellar of a large mansion or castle.
Or maybe:
Scientist making claim lives in isolation in the cellar of his parent's house.
Reminds me of the old joke:
A man and woman just meet and are talking.
Man: "Will you sleep with me?"
Woman: "No way."
Man: "How about for a million dollars?"
The woman thinks about it.
Woman: "Ok."
Man: "How about for $20?"
Woman: "$20? What do you think I am?"
Man: "I know what you are. Now we're just haggling over the price."
Being a whore is bad enough, but being a cheap whore is worse. Tell Dr. Pepper to shove it. RatBastard has got it right.
Plus the empty case would make a nice macquarium
Like the guy who got 26 years for selling 4 one ounce bags of marijuana ("Teenager busted for marijuana gets 26-year sentence")?
I guess the reason why is that you'd need to make a glass master to create CDs via pressing. The question is there a semiportable CD mastering/pressing system?
Jeffrey Combs has played a bunch of characters on ST:
ST:DS9
Weyoun, Brunt, Capt. Mulkahey, Penk, and Tiron
ST:ENT
Shran and Krem