3 percent? What are you doing with all that money, putting it in a passbook savings account? The average fixed-income corporate bond is paying 6 or 7 percent at the moment, and if you're an even-halfway decent investor you can make more than that.
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You're right -- my bad. Shuttin' up now...
If I couldn't DL music from usenet...
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...how else would I have known that the new Fiona Apple CD really isn't very good?
...to get copy protected CDs onto my iPod: I just use a cable to run them from my home stereo into WAV files on the PC, in real-time. (Yeah, I know, that's analog pollution, but I'm just gonna compress them down to 192K MP3s anyway, so what the hell?)
For the past two days I've been struggling with iTunes 5 for Windows, specifically its inability to see my firewire-connected iPod, which does show up as a mounted drive in my Windows directory. Latest iPod Updater likewise doesn't see the iPod. Multiple reinstalls of both, following Apple's own directions, failed to work.
So now I'm using WinAmp's iPod plugin, which works great, actually much better and faster at accessing and managing the iPod than iTunes. I know Apple only begrudgingly supports the Windows platform, but shame on them for releasing this piece of crap.
Yes indeed. It is not common at all for taxpayers to subsidize a cable system rollout; in fact I don't know of any place where that's actually happened. At most, the local community or county might give them a one-time tax-break of some kind or another.
Here's the big difference -- if I build a house out in the middle of complete bumfuck and I want phone service, the phone company must run a line to my house. Seriously, it's the law. That's why you pay a "rural exchange carrier" tax on your phone bill, and have been since waaayyy back in the 20th century...
Many, many years ago, the FCC ruled that Ma Bell was a public utility, and had a certain of obligations thereby. That's what meant by "common carrier," a definition SCOTUS has ruled (correctly, I might add) doesn't apply to the cable industry.
So you have your phone out in east bumfuck now, and you call the cable company. They say "Sorry, we don't provide service where you live." That's it. End of conversation. They don't have to provide you with service, and nobody can make them.
That's why cable is not a "common carrier." How they themselves go upstream to the internet cloud is irrelevent (in reply to someone else's earlier comment). They own, really own, all the cable (or fiber, or whatever) that extends to your property line. So they don't have to open up their network to any 3rd party.
I'm not making a judgement here as to whether this is a good thing or a bad thing. I don't own any cable or telecomm stock; if I did I might actually give a damn. But in this case the Supremes interpreted the law correctly, as it exists right now. Indeed, it was probably the only correct decision the court handed down today (just my opinion, of course...).
Going to? Hell, our collective ass is already half-chewed off, it seems to me.
Let me re-arrange your post a little bit, because you actually answered your own question. We should care, precisely because a) they want to burn the witch, and b) they're building the bomb. If we don't take out those reactors, Israel will certainly be glad to do it for us.
Bad enough that the little deranged motherfucker in North Korea has a nuke. We were asleep at the switch for that one. We absolutely cannot let Iran get the bomb.
Your cents make sense, Andrew. iTunes is like the Tower Records of the online music-store world. It just doesn't jive that so many folks sold Apple short today. But, it was a rough day; everyone got hammered (except PepsiCo, WTF???)
I bought AAPL just after the split at about $40. I'm not imagining that it will make me rich, but if it can't return at least 20% by the end of the year, I'll be quite disappointed. Many analysts' target price is much higher than that.
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Fanless power supplies are now available that generate zero noise, but none have found their way to the shelves at Geeks.com. These fanless power supplies don't follow the guidelines of typical design...
A point to which I can personally attest -- I bought the Antec fanless power supply, and it failed within 30 days.
Sorry, but (with all due respect) Jobs made the right choice. Think about it - why should Steve hitch his incredibly successful product with another entertainment company's content (a company which, at least for now, is somewhat less than incredibly successful)?
Plus, Apple would then be saddled with the burden of updating the, uh, satelliPod whenever Sirius made any significant changes to its technology. It really doesn't make sense, which is what Jobs probably wound up deciding.
We have OS X running on my kids' Blue/White G3 (400 mHz), which, I believe, is the about the oldest Mac on which 10.3 runs. Certainly no speed demon, but it does work and never crashes.
As for 10.3.8, it's running on my PowerBook (15" aluminum G4, 1.25 mHz) for a day now with no apparent problems.
We are. My wife is a safety technician for an industrial recycling plant here in middle Tennessee called Noranda Recycling. They extract precious metals from electronics, and re-process all the HP ink cartidges (you do send those back in the postage-paid envelope, don't you?)
We are in a very similar situation. Two parents, two teenage sons, a computer for each and then some. Plus we're home-schoolers. Next year, when our oldest boy is a senior, he'll be able to join a dual-enrollment program online with a local college.
Blaming computers for kids' failures is just like blaming TV, or rock'n'roll, or any other potential distraction. It's just a scapegoat for poor parenting.
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"...The Bell operating companies, comprised of Verizon, Qwest Communications International, SBC and BellSouth, prefer to wait until they build high-speed fiber-optic connections to homes for their all-out VoIP launches."
Uh-huh... we'll all have telepathic brain implants by the time this happens.
So the 3rd Circuit bitch-slaps the FCC -- gee, wow, how cool and groovy is that. Let me know when your local rock station jettisons the ol' ZZ Top and Skynyrd tunes for, say, the Replacements and the Pixies.
Truth is that niether this court action, nor the FFC rules it blocks, will have much effect on radio (which seems to be the focus of these/. comments). Clear Channel already owns 1200 stations; the next three biggest (Cumulus, Infinity, Citadel) own about half that many, combined.
This ruling will actually hurt independent Mom-n-Pop broadcasters wishing to sell out to a bigger fish, because now all station sales pending FCC approval must be put on ice (again) until the FCC rerwites the ownership rules.
There will always be good non-commercial radio out there (in bigger towns and cities, at least), but as for commercial radio, stick a fork in it.... it's done.
...what the hell happened to Lisa? She used to be a bright kid who happened to have humanistic beliefs as a result of her thoughtfulness, now she is just a mindless follower of "left wing" fads
... with a picture of Dr. Evil on it (i.e. Austin Powers). Must admit it did make it easier to pour a standard amount of whiskey into my egg-nog.
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I didn't watch the show last night. Save for good ol' Tom Petty, I didn't give a rat's ass about anyone who was on it. Petty is a dying breed: an artist with talent and integrety that will sustain him for the rest of his life. But that wasn't necessarily the venue to appreciate the man.
I mean, c'mon... Petty's been slugging it out for 30 years now, and some of his best work has come out just over the last decade. His massive boxed set "Replay" (six CDs) proved that Tom's outtakes are better than 95% of anything you might hear on the radio nowadays.
Fast-forward to 2033. Will anyone remember Avril Lavigne? Justin Timberlake? Beyonce? Hell, that's not even a real name. None of these "artists" will stand the test of time. NONE of them.
"Who needs the radio anymore?" Well, I do, for one. My livelihood depends on it (I'm a freelance commercial producer). But with all due respect to Ms. Brown, the fact that radio competes for eardrums with the internet (old news) and MTV (even older news) misses the point.
The question shouldn't be "who needs the radio anymore." This is too simplistic. It should be "who needs the product that radio delivers anymore." That's the problem the industry needs to address. There's a reason cume (uh, that's cumulative listeners for you civilians) has dropped every year since 1985, and I believe it's because there's little compelling reason to listen anymore.
... because there is a sizeable chunk of older folks who will never, ever use the interent. My 62 yr. old mom is among them: she gets news from TV, communicates by phone and gets music from her Bose Acoustic Wave. Mention the internet and she (unintentionally) quotes Homer Simpson: "Is that thing still around?"
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re: "...At 3% return..."
3 percent? What are you doing with all that money, putting it in a passbook savings account? The average fixed-income corporate bond is paying 6 or 7 percent at the moment, and if you're an even-halfway decent investor you can make more than that.
You're right -- my bad. Shuttin' up now...
...how else would I have known that the new Fiona Apple CD really isn't very good?
...to get copy protected CDs onto my iPod: I just use a cable to run them from my home stereo into WAV files on the PC, in real-time. (Yeah, I know, that's analog pollution, but I'm just gonna compress them down to 192K MP3s anyway, so what the hell?)
I love their Mac OS X German Shepherd....
..."because of" not "despite."
re: Obviously, despite the fact that this is carried by Reuters, you should take some of the 'facts' presented here with some NaCl.
For the past two days I've been struggling with iTunes 5 for Windows, specifically its inability to see my firewire-connected iPod, which does show up as a mounted drive in my Windows directory. Latest iPod Updater likewise doesn't see the iPod. Multiple reinstalls of both, following Apple's own directions, failed to work.
So now I'm using WinAmp's iPod plugin, which works great, actually much better and faster at accessing and managing the iPod than iTunes. I know Apple only begrudgingly supports the Windows platform, but shame on them for releasing this piece of crap.
The notion that somebody out there with the looks of Angelina Jolie is blogging away merrily is... Well, keep fantasizing.
Oh, but I beg to differ...
http://www.notadesperatehousewife.mu.nu/
This is but one of many, and (be still, my heart!) they tend to be overwhelmingly conservative.
MS Office -- stick a fork in it -- it's done.
Yes indeed. It is not common at all for taxpayers to subsidize a cable system rollout; in fact I don't know of any place where that's actually happened. At most, the local community or county might give them a one-time tax-break of some kind or another.
Here's the big difference -- if I build a house out in the middle of complete bumfuck and I want phone service, the phone company must run a line to my house. Seriously, it's the law. That's why you pay a "rural exchange carrier" tax on your phone bill, and have been since waaayyy back in the 20th century...
Many, many years ago, the FCC ruled that Ma Bell was a public utility, and had a certain of obligations thereby. That's what meant by "common carrier," a definition SCOTUS has ruled (correctly, I might add) doesn't apply to the cable industry.
So you have your phone out in east bumfuck now, and you call the cable company. They say "Sorry, we don't provide service where you live." That's it. End of conversation. They don't have to provide you with service, and nobody can make them.
That's why cable is not a "common carrier." How they themselves go upstream to the internet cloud is irrelevent (in reply to someone else's earlier comment). They own, really own, all the cable (or fiber, or whatever) that extends to your property line. So they don't have to open up their network to any 3rd party.
I'm not making a judgement here as to whether this is a good thing or a bad thing. I don't own any cable or telecomm stock; if I did I might actually give a damn. But in this case the Supremes interpreted the law correctly, as it exists right now. Indeed, it was probably the only correct decision the court handed down today (just my opinion, of course...).
-- DG
"Tolerance is going to bite the US in the ass."
Going to? Hell, our collective ass is already half-chewed off, it seems to me.
Let me re-arrange your post a little bit, because you actually answered your own question. We should care, precisely because a) they want to burn the witch, and b) they're building the bomb. If we don't take out those reactors, Israel will certainly be glad to do it for us.
Bad enough that the little deranged motherfucker in North Korea has a nuke. We were asleep at the switch for that one. We absolutely cannot let Iran get the bomb.
Your cents make sense, Andrew. iTunes is like the Tower Records of the online music-store world. It just doesn't jive that so many folks sold Apple short today. But, it was a rough day; everyone got hammered (except PepsiCo, WTF???)
I bought AAPL just after the split at about $40. I'm not imagining that it will make me rich, but if it can't return at least 20% by the end of the year, I'll be quite disappointed. Many analysts' target price is much higher than that.
... my own personal Grass Pellet Refinery from ThinkGeek, then I'll be excited.
... you insensitive clod.
A point to which I can personally attest -- I bought the Antec fanless power supply, and it failed within 30 days.
Sorry, but (with all due respect) Jobs made the right choice. Think about it - why should Steve hitch his incredibly successful product with another entertainment company's content (a company which, at least for now, is somewhat less than incredibly successful)?
Plus, Apple would then be saddled with the burden of updating the, uh, satelliPod whenever Sirius made any significant changes to its technology. It really doesn't make sense, which is what Jobs probably wound up deciding.
We have OS X running on my kids' Blue/White G3 (400 mHz), which, I believe, is the about the oldest Mac on which 10.3 runs. Certainly no speed demon, but it does work and never crashes.
As for 10.3.8, it's running on my PowerBook (15" aluminum G4, 1.25 mHz) for a day now with no apparent problems.
We are. My wife is a safety technician for an industrial recycling plant here in middle Tennessee called Noranda Recycling. They extract precious metals from electronics, and re-process all the HP ink cartidges (you do send those back in the postage-paid envelope, don't you?)
We are in a very similar situation. Two parents, two teenage sons, a computer for each and then some. Plus we're home-schoolers. Next year, when our oldest boy is a senior, he'll be able to join a dual-enrollment program online with a local college.
Blaming computers for kids' failures is just like blaming TV, or rock'n'roll, or any other potential distraction. It's just a scapegoat for poor parenting.
"...The Bell operating companies, comprised of Verizon, Qwest Communications International, SBC and BellSouth, prefer to wait until they build high-speed fiber-optic connections to homes for their all-out VoIP launches."
Uh-huh... we'll all have telepathic brain implants by the time this happens.
So the 3rd Circuit bitch-slaps the FCC -- gee, wow, how cool and groovy is that. Let me know when your local rock station jettisons the ol' ZZ Top and Skynyrd tunes for, say, the Replacements and the Pixies.
/. comments). Clear Channel already owns 1200 stations; the next three biggest (Cumulus, Infinity, Citadel) own about half that many, combined.
Truth is that niether this court action, nor the FFC rules it blocks, will have much effect on radio (which seems to be the focus of these
This ruling will actually hurt independent Mom-n-Pop broadcasters wishing to sell out to a bigger fish, because now all station sales pending FCC approval must be put on ice (again) until the FCC rerwites the ownership rules.
There will always be good non-commercial radio out there (in bigger towns and cities, at least), but as for commercial radio, stick a fork in it.... it's done.
Umm... there's a difference?
... with a picture of Dr. Evil on it (i.e. Austin Powers). Must admit it did make it easier to pour a standard amount of whiskey into my egg-nog.
I didn't watch the show last night. Save for good ol' Tom Petty, I didn't give a rat's ass about anyone who was on it. Petty is a dying breed: an artist with talent and integrety that will sustain him for the rest of his life. But that wasn't necessarily the venue to appreciate the man.
I mean, c'mon... Petty's been slugging it out for 30 years now, and some of his best work has come out just over the last decade. His massive boxed set "Replay" (six CDs) proved that Tom's outtakes are better than 95% of anything you might hear on the radio nowadays.
Fast-forward to 2033. Will anyone remember Avril Lavigne? Justin Timberlake? Beyonce? Hell, that's not even a real name. None of these "artists" will stand the test of time. NONE of them.
"Who needs the radio anymore?" Well, I do, for one. My livelihood depends on it (I'm a freelance commercial producer). But with all due respect to Ms. Brown, the fact that radio competes for eardrums with the internet (old news) and MTV (even older news) misses the point.
The question shouldn't be "who needs the radio anymore." This is too simplistic. It should be "who needs the product that radio delivers anymore." That's the problem the industry needs to address. There's a reason cume (uh, that's cumulative listeners for you civilians) has dropped every year since 1985, and I believe it's because there's little compelling reason to listen anymore.
Except, of course, for the traffic reports.
... because there is a sizeable chunk of older folks who will never, ever use the interent. My 62 yr. old mom is among them: she gets news from TV, communicates by phone and gets music from her Bose Acoustic Wave. Mention the internet and she (unintentionally) quotes Homer Simpson: "Is that thing still around?"
She is the quintessential non-internet person.