Are they really or does the price include an RIAA "music copying kickback" like the CD-Rs labeled "music" have? I know one poor guy who was buying those to put his non-music data on because he assumed that the "music" label meant that they were higher quality... I would expect that the assumption on all mini-disks would be that you were planning to put music that the RIAA and co. feel that they are owed "royaltees" on (I've always liked the word, it even emplys "payment to be taken by the fat cat at the top for the work of others) so you probably can't buy mini-disks at all without dumping money into the RIAA and SONY/BMG pockets.
How come nobody has commented on how hideously ugily that thing is, especially the front. Yes it has a sifi spaceship look, but it's "old grimy cargo hauler," not "pride of the fleet." In my part of the sticks I can't even find an $25 broken G3, but if I could, and had $800 for bits it would come out a lot better looking than that...
The user agent info you mention is nearly useless for these purpouses, and is probably responsible for the incorrectness of many user base statistics about non-Windows platforms. Mac users have been using settings in their browsers or third party shareware for years to "spoof" web sites that "require" IE X.Y or "better" (and are set up to refuse to function on anything else) but work just fine if your browser's "user agent" information says it is IE X.Y for Windows.
The problem with changing these settings is that most of us who change them at all need or want to visit these wretched web sites often tend to change the setting and leave it there, thus reporting another copy of IE for Windows to lots of sites, even though it's a misstatement the user has been forced to make in order to use another site. Admittedly this practice doesn't seem quite a prevalent or easy to do now as formerly, but I'm sure it's being done, and with the longer usefull lives of Macs (including the one that I'm using now) there's probably a lot of "liars" out there. Also, although I can't say so from experience, I would immagine that there are quite a few Linux boxes out there issuing false "user agent" headers for the same reason.
I just have to amplify here. I have a bunch of music that I bought from mp3.com back when they actually SOLD music. It's mine, bought and paid for, and it plays just fine in iTunes. It would play just fine on my iPod if I could afford one. Meanwhile the RIAA is responsible for the fact that you can't BUY songs in a standard, un-encrypted format anywhere any more, so I don't feel she has any right to whine. If she really feels so badly about her iPod she can send it to me. I'm sure that the RIAA payed her thousands (millions?) of dollars that ought to have gone to musicians, so surely she can spare an iPod..... Or perhaps make a reality check, and stop whining since she was spokesperson for the whole problem when it starded.
I found myself in a similar situation recently, and have found the sort of tables that you want. Unfortunately they don't seem to have been made since the fifties. I found mine at a sale before the remodeling of Maine's only state office building, which was filled with furniature dating back to when it was new in 1956. These tables run to big and steel-framed. I got two, the larger of which is holding a pair of big monitors with room to spare (one of these is an ancient 19 inch grayscale of spectacular weight). These things do tend to run to bulky and gray, but the metal parts are easy enough to paint. I would be careful not to overload them, though, as I expect that their legs will go through the floor before they break, alarming the folks downstairs.
Look for an office that is selling off old furniature. Mine were a remarkable buy, and in good condition.
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Are they really or does the price include an RIAA "music copying kickback" like the CD-Rs labeled "music" have? I know one poor guy who was buying those to put his non-music data on because he assumed that the "music" label meant that they were higher quality... I would expect that the assumption on all mini-disks would be that you were planning to put music that the RIAA and co. feel that they are owed "royaltees" on (I've always liked the word, it even emplys "payment to be taken by the fat cat at the top for the work of others) so you probably can't buy mini-disks at all without dumping money into the RIAA and SONY/BMG pockets.
How come nobody has commented on how hideously ugily that thing is, especially the front. Yes it has a sifi spaceship look, but it's "old grimy cargo hauler," not "pride of the fleet." In my part of the sticks I can't even find an $25 broken G3, but if I could, and had $800 for bits it would come out a lot better looking than that...
The user agent info you mention is nearly useless for these purpouses, and is probably responsible for the incorrectness of many user base statistics about non-Windows platforms. Mac users have been using settings in their browsers or third party shareware for years to "spoof" web sites that "require" IE X.Y or "better" (and are set up to refuse to function on anything else) but work just fine if your browser's "user agent" information says it is IE X.Y for Windows. The problem with changing these settings is that most of us who change them at all need or want to visit these wretched web sites often tend to change the setting and leave it there, thus reporting another copy of IE for Windows to lots of sites, even though it's a misstatement the user has been forced to make in order to use another site. Admittedly this practice doesn't seem quite a prevalent or easy to do now as formerly, but I'm sure it's being done, and with the longer usefull lives of Macs (including the one that I'm using now) there's probably a lot of "liars" out there. Also, although I can't say so from experience, I would immagine that there are quite a few Linux boxes out there issuing false "user agent" headers for the same reason.
I just have to amplify here. I have a bunch of music that I bought from mp3.com back when they actually SOLD music. It's mine, bought and paid for, and it plays just fine in iTunes. It would play just fine on my iPod if I could afford one. Meanwhile the RIAA is responsible for the fact that you can't BUY songs in a standard, un-encrypted format anywhere any more, so I don't feel she has any right to whine. If she really feels so badly about her iPod she can send it to me. I'm sure that the RIAA payed her thousands (millions?) of dollars that ought to have gone to musicians, so surely she can spare an iPod..... Or perhaps make a reality check, and stop whining since she was spokesperson for the whole problem when it starded.
I found myself in a similar situation recently, and have found the sort of tables that you want. Unfortunately they don't seem to have been made since the fifties. I found mine at a sale before the remodeling of Maine's only state office building, which was filled with furniature dating back to when it was new in 1956. These tables run to big and steel-framed. I got two, the larger of which is holding a pair of big monitors with room to spare (one of these is an ancient 19 inch grayscale of spectacular weight). These things do tend to run to bulky and gray, but the metal parts are easy enough to paint. I would be careful not to overload them, though, as I expect that their legs will go through the floor before they break, alarming the folks downstairs. Look for an office that is selling off old furniature. Mine were a remarkable buy, and in good condition.