Isn't replying to your own post a sign of derangement, or something? Anyway....
Something else you might want to check into is a feature that is built-into iTunes. Go to Preferences -> General, and change "On CD Insert" to "Import Songs and Eject." This is a technique that I have used (with multiple optical drives, no less) and can vouch for.
I haven't used it; I saw it earlier today when grabbing another script from their site. My experience with other Doug's AppleScripts for iTunes has been quite positive. I ripped (in some cases, re-ripped...stupid LAME bug!) all 1500+ or so of my CDs last year, and I used a few of those scripts to make my life easier. Give it a look-through.
Agreed. But the fact that XServe RAID is aimed at the server market does not change the nature of the blanket statement to which I responded ("Apple doesn't ship hardware RAID"), let alone the fact that you can connect one to a desktop G5. Presenting evidence that using Apple as one's "sole supplier" can be limiting is only potentially useful when the evidence is correct.
I can't speak for the iPod-only bit, but as far as the Apple-only portion goes, well, it could turn out to be either a separate application that only runs on Macs, or a feature integrated into iTunes.
There's a precedent, at least as far as integrating pay services into iApps, and that is iPhoto. Granted, it's not a Mac-only service, but Apple has done it before.
I can't see the iPod-only piece working without some sort of DRM, however, and I think (perhaps naively) that Apple wouldn't throw DRM into the mix this late in the game.
"Olde English," technically, has absolutely nothing to do with the examples you give. Those are merely now-obscure (or cute, depending on your perspective) variations on the English that modern speakers know.
If you'd like to see what Old English really looks like, you could have a gander at Beowulf. As I'm sure you'll realize very quickly, fluency in Modern English doesn't really help much when trying to read Old English. It may as well be a different language.
Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, written in Middle English, is usually considered to be one of the earliest English works still available that untrained modern readers have a chance at understanding. It's a bit closer to your "Olde English," but it's still a far cry from the minor spelling variations that you cited. (Did you know that "ye" is merely a pre-18th century spelling of "the," and was pronounced more or less the same way it is today?)
It's your cartel-like pricing, coupled with your outright hostility for the people who have to buy your product. GM tried this tactic in the 70's. At one time they had a greater than 50% market share. Today they are still trying to recover from their mistakes.
It's actually a little-known fact that GM's decline started with an epidemic of thieves who would use the so-called "automobile superhighway" to share cars so that they wouldn't have to buy their own.
I remember that song getting a lot of airplay during the messiness ten years ago. I also remember seeing stickers on their compilation CD Staring at the Sea here in the U.S. saying something to the effect of "The Cure do not condone the use of 'Killing an Arab' for racist sentiment."
The novel, of course, isn't racist at all, and neither is the song -- if you have that context. If not, well, The Cure did set themselves up for misinterpretation.
Problem is, this time the U.S. isn't the only country that is capable of a nuclear attack. Would Truman have ordered those bombs dropped in 1945 if he'd thought anyone was capable of doing the same to a U.S. city? I'm not so sure he would have.
No action may be brought under this title alleging infringement of copyright based on the manufacture, importation, or distribution of a digital audio recording device, a digital audio recording medium, an analog recording device, or an analog recording medium, or based on the noncommercial use by a consumer of such a device or medium for making digital musical recordings or analog musical recordings.
That sounds to me like it's not illegal to make a digital copy of a CD for your own personal use.
And, to the best of my knowledge, David Lowery is the only former member of Camper Van Beethoven that is in Cracker. So, it's not really that "they were" Cracker, more that "he was in" Cracker.
There's a reason I made sure that my job, although computer-related, did not have anything to do with the infamous bug. (No, I won't type those three characters.)
Mr. Joe Computer said it himself: he did, in fact, have a choice not to be there. He could have skipped out and just accepted his termination (then again, it's not unheard of for such a threat to be made but have it turn out to be unfounded). The tech industry is a sellers' market as far as labor goes. We all know this. And I'm sure that we all know that bug-related consultants were in even higher demand than the rest of the tech industry. I have no sympathy for Mr. Computer's whining.
Did he ever stop to consider that all of the other professions that he mentioned (police, medical, entertainment, etc.) usually have to work on holidays, but are probably in worse environments and paid less to boot?
Choices one makes for money usually have consequences down the road. Get some foresight. And realize that you are still better off than most people. Then deal with it. My step-father had to work Friday night. Although my mother was allowed to spend the magic moment with him, they went out for dinner the next night and celebrated then.
Yes, Joe, perhaps becoming a corn farmer will do you good. You'd probably soon realize how good you have it now.
there is a huge, politically-charged (in the psych community) book intended as an aid in diagnosis of mental disorders...it's called the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. now, a lot of what's in it could be considered a manifestation of popular opinion (e.g., homosexuality used to be listed in it as a disorder, but has since been removed...see Michel Foucault for an interesting perspective on [western] society's need to stigmatize and outcast...does the phrase "ship of fools" sound familiar?), so you can certainly make an argument that the fraction of the population listed is arbitrary. and, i can't deny that it is an individual's personality quirks or lack thereof that affect how interesting of a person they may or may not be.
but the point to me seems to be that if people are having a hard time living due to depression, schizophrenia (which does not imply multiple personality disorder, btw), etc., they need help. lots of mental disorders have their roots in body/brain chemistry. they're not personality flaws. in fact, such chemical imbalances have a strong correlation with genetics. how fair is it to hold someone's genetics against them? remember: mental illness is not a personality flaw. i know it's hard to remember this when it so strongly affects the way someone behaves, but it's important not to forget this.
as far as the surgeon general goes, does anyone here remember what c. everett koop's report about AIDS in the 80's did for the stigma of HIV and other STDs? surely a similar lessening of the stigma of mental illness cannot be a bad thing. but i must say that i am simultanousely unsurprised and appalled by the insensitivity that i see in this supposedly intelligent community (especially after the post-Littleton outcry i saw here..."nuts"?!...gee, no one here has had any bad experiences with pigeonholing?). maybe the stigma will never go away.
That is, until he realized that his hobby, fixing computers, could be a better career bet.
Bingo. I find this article, and others like it, interesting, because many people seem to act surprised that students may want to consider career opportunities in selecting a career. This shouldn't be surprising at all, because that's what American society is heavily slanted toward: money == happiness. Well, I don't think that's the case, and I'm glad that I stayed in school for a bit longer to earn a dual English/CS degree rather than just English...or just CS for that matter. But I'd be a liar if I said that the CS half of my degree was more important in the job market than the English half...or if I said that enough salary to live comfortably was never a consideration along the way.
So, ultimately, the paradox of post-secondary education, apparently (judging by the clamor in the article), is that that level of education is twofold in purpose: to widen and deepen oneself intellectually, and to greatly increase one's future earnings potential. Not many fields of study offer both of these, at least IMNSHO. I attended a large public university, where the two largest schools were the Liberal Arts College (which included the 'traditional' sciences) and the Engineering College (where Computer Engineering and Computer Science were taught, although CS degrees were awarded only by the Liberal Arts school). The vibe I got from a lot of the engineering students I attended classes with was that they were viewing university as a pricey trade school. (To be fair, I didn't get a vibe of intellectual expansion from all of the liberal arts students I ran into.) But the way the curricula were set up did little to counter this attitude. Get your degree, get your job, and get out. Where fault for that attitude lies, I cannot say.
But I can say that it disgusted me to be in a classroom where most people were seemingly interested in the piece of paper from the registrar's office than what it (ostensibly) represented.
Having said that, however, I think that one crucial angle that the article missed was that it's not necessary to work at a job that deals directly with one's favorite intellectual pursuits in order to have a satisfying life. To expect otherwise is ridiculous. That's what hobbies are for.
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Assuming that you meant, "Do not reinvent the wheel," I have this to say in reply:
When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
Oh, and a cliche in the hand is worth two in the bush.
Isn't replying to your own post a sign of derangement, or something? Anyway....
Something else you might want to check into is a feature that is built-into iTunes. Go to Preferences -> General, and change "On CD Insert" to "Import Songs and Eject." This is a technique that I have used (with multiple optical drives, no less) and can vouch for.
Well, assuming that iTunes meets your other requirements, this AppleScript may prove useful to you:
I haven't used it; I saw it earlier today when grabbing another script from their site. My experience with other Doug's AppleScripts for iTunes has been quite positive. I ripped (in some cases, re-ripped...stupid LAME bug!) all 1500+ or so of my CDs last year, and I used a few of those scripts to make my life easier. Give it a look-through.
Agreed. But the fact that XServe RAID is aimed at the server market does not change the nature of the blanket statement to which I responded ("Apple doesn't ship hardware RAID"), let alone the fact that you can connect one to a desktop G5. Presenting evidence that using Apple as one's "sole supplier" can be limiting is only potentially useful when the evidence is correct.
They don't?
If he can't do his job, perhaps he should resign.
I can't speak for the iPod-only bit, but as far as the Apple-only portion goes, well, it could turn out to be either a separate application that only runs on Macs, or a feature integrated into iTunes.
There's a precedent, at least as far as integrating pay services into iApps, and that is iPhoto. Granted, it's not a Mac-only service, but Apple has done it before.
I can't see the iPod-only piece working without some sort of DRM, however, and I think (perhaps naively) that Apple wouldn't throw DRM into the mix this late in the game.
"Olde English," technically, has absolutely nothing to do with the examples you give. Those are merely now-obscure (or cute, depending on your perspective) variations on the English that modern speakers know.
If you'd like to see what Old English really looks like, you could have a gander at Beowulf . As I'm sure you'll realize very quickly, fluency in Modern English doesn't really help much when trying to read Old English. It may as well be a different language.
Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales , written in Middle English, is usually considered to be one of the earliest English works still available that untrained modern readers have a chance at understanding. It's a bit closer to your "Olde English," but it's still a far cry from the minor spelling variations that you cited. (Did you know that "ye" is merely a pre-18th century spelling of "the," and was pronounced more or less the same way it is today?)
It's actually a little-known fact that GM's decline started with an epidemic of thieves who would use the so-called "automobile superhighway" to share cars so that they wouldn't have to buy their own.
If it's 6000 years ago, wouldn't 4000 B.C. be closer to the right date? Hmmmm...I guess it's older than they thought!
Yes, it is based on The Stranger.
I remember that song getting a lot of airplay during the messiness ten years ago. I also remember seeing stickers on their compilation CD Staring at the Sea here in the U.S. saying something to the effect of "The Cure do not condone the use of 'Killing an Arab' for racist sentiment."
The novel, of course, isn't racist at all, and neither is the song -- if you have that context. If not, well, The Cure did set themselves up for misinterpretation.
Problem is, this time the U.S. isn't the only country that is capable of a nuclear attack. Would Truman have ordered those bombs dropped in 1945 if he'd thought anyone was capable of doing the same to a U.S. city? I'm not so sure he would have.
You are ignoring Section 1008, which states
That sounds to me like it's not illegal to make a digital copy of a CD for your own personal use.
Well, Hemos could be just realizing the possibility of an acquisition and asking if it has already taken place. :-/
(However alive or dead the subjunctive construction may be, if the term baffles you, it's never too late for a brief lesson or two.)
It's probably a good thing you didn't use the tag, since it's commonly misrendered by older browsers.
"Detachable Penis" was by King Missile.
And, to the best of my knowledge, David Lowery is the only former member of Camper Van Beethoven that is in Cracker. So, it's not really that "they were" Cracker, more that "he was in" Cracker.
There's a reason I made sure that my job, although computer-related, did not have anything to do with the infamous bug. (No, I won't type those three characters.)
Mr. Joe Computer said it himself: he did, in fact, have a choice not to be there. He could have skipped out and just accepted his termination (then again, it's not unheard of for such a threat to be made but have it turn out to be unfounded). The tech industry is a sellers' market as far as labor goes. We all know this. And I'm sure that we all know that bug-related consultants were in even higher demand than the rest of the tech industry. I have no sympathy for Mr. Computer's whining.
Did he ever stop to consider that all of the other professions that he mentioned (police, medical, entertainment, etc.) usually have to work on holidays, but are probably in worse environments and paid less to boot?
Choices one makes for money usually have consequences down the road. Get some foresight. And realize that you are still better off than most people. Then deal with it. My step-father had to work Friday night. Although my mother was allowed to spend the magic moment with him, they went out for dinner the next night and celebrated then.
Yes, Joe, perhaps becoming a corn farmer will do you good. You'd probably soon realize how good you have it now.
there is a huge, politically-charged (in the psych community) book intended as an aid in diagnosis of mental disorders...it's called the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. now, a lot of what's in it could be considered a manifestation of popular opinion (e.g., homosexuality used to be listed in it as a disorder, but has since been removed...see Michel Foucault for an interesting perspective on [western] society's need to stigmatize and outcast...does the phrase "ship of fools" sound familiar?), so you can certainly make an argument that the fraction of the population listed is arbitrary. and, i can't deny that it is an individual's personality quirks or lack thereof that affect how interesting of a person they may or may not be.
but the point to me seems to be that if people are having a hard time living due to depression, schizophrenia (which does not imply multiple personality disorder, btw), etc., they need help. lots of mental disorders have their roots in body/brain chemistry. they're not personality flaws. in fact, such chemical imbalances have a strong correlation with genetics. how fair is it to hold someone's genetics against them? remember: mental illness is not a personality flaw. i know it's hard to remember this when it so strongly affects the way someone behaves, but it's important not to forget this.
as far as the surgeon general goes, does anyone here remember what c. everett koop's report about AIDS in the 80's did for the stigma of HIV and other STDs? surely a similar lessening of the stigma of mental illness cannot be a bad thing. but i must say that i am simultanousely unsurprised and appalled by the insensitivity that i see in this supposedly intelligent community (especially after the post-Littleton outcry i saw here..."nuts"?!...gee, no one here has had any bad experiences with pigeonholing?). maybe the stigma will never go away.
That is, until he realized that his hobby, fixing computers, could be a better career bet.
Bingo. I find this article, and others like it, interesting, because many people seem to act surprised that students may want to consider career opportunities in selecting a career. This shouldn't be surprising at all, because that's what American society is heavily slanted toward: money == happiness. Well, I don't think that's the case, and I'm glad that I stayed in school for a bit longer to earn a dual English/CS degree rather than just English...or just CS for that matter. But I'd be a liar if I said that the CS half of my degree was more important in the job market than the English half...or if I said that enough salary to live comfortably was never a consideration along the way.
So, ultimately, the paradox of post-secondary education, apparently (judging by the clamor in the article), is that that level of education is twofold in purpose: to widen and deepen oneself intellectually, and to greatly increase one's future earnings potential. Not many fields of study offer both of these, at least IMNSHO. I attended a large public university, where the two largest schools were the Liberal Arts College (which included the 'traditional' sciences) and the Engineering College (where Computer Engineering and Computer Science were taught, although CS degrees were awarded only by the Liberal Arts school). The vibe I got from a lot of the engineering students I attended classes with was that they were viewing university as a pricey trade school. (To be fair, I didn't get a vibe of intellectual expansion from all of the liberal arts students I ran into.) But the way the curricula were set up did little to counter this attitude. Get your degree, get your job, and get out. Where fault for that attitude lies, I cannot say.
But I can say that it disgusted me to be in a classroom where most people were seemingly interested in the piece of paper from the registrar's office than what it (ostensibly) represented.
Having said that, however, I think that one crucial angle that the article missed was that it's not necessary to work at a job that deals directly with one's favorite intellectual pursuits in order to have a satisfying life. To expect otherwise is ridiculous. That's what hobbies are for.