You know...there have been several people who have mentioned this in the comments to this article. But you know what I haven't encountered? Someone who hasn't been forwarded to uk.newsbot.msn.com.
And you know why that is? Probably because all requests are going to be uk.newsbot.msn.com. It's just a plain, old redirect. Time will tell whether this service will forward you to a region-specific news site, based on your IP. But for now, I think we're getting a little too ridiculous.
And I imagine this is going to come to the Mac OS (perhaps even sooner than it comes to Longhorn.) For example,
iTunes gets "smart playlists" in iTunes 3, allowing live display of mp3s by various criteria
Finder gets a brushed metal interface, purportedly because it deals with categories and lists (like iTunes)
New brushed metal finder has a special area on the lefthand side where you can drag various folders, and display their items in the righthand side (like bookmarks, basically.)
It's not too hard to see where this will go. Now granted, there's a long way from this functionality to BeOS style functionality (viewing ID3 tag information and mail headers as sortable items in the Finder, for example), but its coming, hopefully when real metadata comes back to OS X (Although I don't really miss file type and creater codes, I felt it was a step back to go to file extensions.) I mean, the live searching in Panther is supposed to be pretty fast and fairly slick already...it wouldn't be too hard to add some criteria to it.
While you're looking at it, why don't you take a look at the questionmarket ads that are still causing popups? ("Still" as of yesterday evening).
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I too have seen these popups, and have isolated them to a particular ad (it's this annoying flash ad that looks like a blue battery charging charge icon. There may be more than just this one.)
I doubt it's due to malware or spyware...I'm running Mac OS 9. Just open this URL in a new window and keep clicking it until you get this blue battery. Then click it again, and you'll get a popup as the page unloads.
Incidentally, there may be cookies at play here too, since I had trouble getting the popunders to return until I went into my cookie settings and located (and removed) the two questionmarket cookies...one is named LP - this is the one that shows up when the popup displays. You may have to delete this cookie before the popunders display (when unloading the blue battery ad.)
How does Expose perform on the 350mhz G4? I've got a Yikes motherboard G4/400 (also without enough VRAM for Quartz Extreme) and have felt that this may be the time for it to go the OS X route. Otherwise, I'll probably keep the G4 for OS 9 and my legacy audio apps, and beg for enough cash to acquire a G5.
...because it's been posted in this discussion at least three separate times. You know, I have mod points. And finally a good reason to use them. But I think I'll respond instead.
Hah...crap, I do remember that post. And I also remember thinking it was pretty outlandish, but not a terrible idea, either. I find it interesting also that one of the bands he listed (No Doubt) just got publicity recently for signing on to the service (as with the Eagles.)
I find it interesting that you point out the current average price per track when buying at a store, and then complain about how paying similar (although less) for the same track through Apple's solution is vastly inferior (quality of AAC notwithstanding) without mentioning the primary benefit of purchasing music online: INSTANT GRATIFICATION.
I don't have to go to the mall. I don't have to buy an entire CD for one track. I see it, I click on it, and (with broadband and 99 cents later) it's mine a mere seconds later. I can burn it. I can stream it (albeit limitedly, with AAC.) There are significant advantages to this system - it's not just about reducing cost, although that too is a factor.
However, you are correct regarding the purchasing of tracks by length: I think Apple should have released the service allowing individual tracks purchased at 99 cents, and entire albums at $7.99, because basically, music falls into two camps: one where I'd like the entire album, or where I'd like a single, or several tracks that pique my interest. This current offering addresses the latter; I imagine they'll introduce the former as soon as they can.
You never know...money is an amazingly compelling thing. The only IMAX theater we have close by is at the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry, which typically shows the types of films you mentioned. Last fall, it showed "Attack of the Clones" for several weeks.
Incidentally, if you go and see if a feature film playing at an IMAX theater, make sure to get there early: we got seats that were just slightly off center and closer to the floor. The experience was painful, and not just because of the dialogue. (Although they did cut out the scene in the fields)
Yes, but a quick read of the article determines that it doesn't address the points made by the original poster. McGovern's gripes include our litigious society, and the complicated laws and tax issues regarding small business ownership. The original poster was bitching about the high cost of wages and health benefits imposed upon the poor business owners by greedy, evil, shifty-eyed unions. The original post described workers as though they were leeches, whereas McGovern views them with concern:
I'm lucky. I can recover eventually from the loss of the Stratford Inn because I'm still able to generate income from lectures and other services. But what about the 60 people who worked for me in Stratford? While running my struggling hotel, I never once missed a payroll. What happens to the people who counted on that, and to their families and community, when an owner goes under?
Yeah, a story like that has to be true. No one every makes come-uppance tales about people of different opinions to show them suffering from their misguided ways.
Hah, well, in the words of Ronald Reagan's press secretary, responding to one of the president's anecdotes that was untrue: "Well, it's a good story, though. It made the point, didn't it?"
Lisa: Remember Dad, "All glory is fleeting."
Homer: So?
Lisa: "Beware the Ides of March."
Homer: No!
Lisa: Dad, I know you think you're happy now, but it's not going to last forever.
Homer: Everything lasts forever.
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You know...there have been several people who have mentioned this in the comments to this article. But you know what I haven't encountered? Someone who hasn't been forwarded to uk.newsbot.msn.com.
And you know why that is? Probably because all requests are going to be uk.newsbot.msn.com. It's just a plain, old redirect. Time will tell whether this service will forward you to a region-specific news site, based on your IP. But for now, I think we're getting a little too ridiculous.
- iTunes gets "smart playlists" in iTunes 3, allowing live display of mp3s by various criteria
- Finder gets a brushed metal interface, purportedly because it deals with categories and lists (like iTunes)
- New brushed metal finder has a special area on the lefthand side where you can drag various folders, and display their items in the righthand side (like bookmarks, basically.)
It's not too hard to see where this will go. Now granted, there's a long way from this functionality to BeOS style functionality (viewing ID3 tag information and mail headers as sortable items in the Finder, for example), but its coming, hopefully when real metadata comes back to OS X (Although I don't really miss file type and creater codes, I felt it was a step back to go to file extensions.) I mean, the live searching in Panther is supposed to be pretty fast and fairly slick already...it wouldn't be too hard to add some criteria to it....it couldn't handle the frame rate.
While you're looking at it, why don't you take a look at the questionmarket ads that are still causing popups? ("Still" as of yesterday evening).
I too have seen these popups, and have isolated them to a particular ad (it's this annoying flash ad that looks like a blue battery charging charge icon. There may be more than just this one.)
I doubt it's due to malware or spyware...I'm running Mac OS 9. Just open this URL in a new window and keep clicking it until you get this blue battery. Then click it again, and you'll get a popup as the page unloads.
Incidentally, there may be cookies at play here too, since I had trouble getting the popunders to return until I went into my cookie settings and located (and removed) the two questionmarket cookies...one is named LP - this is the one that shows up when the popup displays. You may have to delete this cookie before the popunders display (when unloading the blue battery ad.)
How does Expose perform on the 350mhz G4? I've got a Yikes motherboard G4/400 (also without enough VRAM for Quartz Extreme) and have felt that this may be the time for it to go the OS X route. Otherwise, I'll probably keep the G4 for OS 9 and my legacy audio apps, and beg for enough cash to acquire a G5.
http://www.regalcm.com/index_rush.asp
Yeah...they also claim that their 16" laptop can hold four internal hard drives.
They must not have gotten the memo.
- First it was as keesh. The result? "0: Redundant."
- Several threads later, as ADOT Troll, you said pretty much the same thing. Too bad, same result. "0: Redundant."
Third times the charm.I wonder if Safari's displaying button as a block level element. If you put this into a CSS file...
button {display: inline; margin-right: 5px}
Maybe it would display all buttons on a single line, with some margin between them.
Aah, well...I can't test this anyway. The burden's of being poor...
According to Apple's website, they're specing against a dual 3.06Ghz Xeon.
See for yourself.
- Buy album for $9.99 (since they offer album bulk pricing)
- Burn album once (one burn, no playlist changing)
- Remove resulting CD from CD burner
- Insert CD into CD drive, new blank CD-R into CD burner
- Disc Copy
- Go to 5
Now quite yer bitchin!Hah...crap, I do remember that post. And I also remember thinking it was pretty outlandish, but not a terrible idea, either. I find it interesting also that one of the bands he listed (No Doubt) just got publicity recently for signing on to the service (as with the Eagles.)
Alternatively, they could buy it for $9.99.
I don't have to go to the mall. I don't have to buy an entire CD for one track. I see it, I click on it, and (with broadband and 99 cents later) it's mine a mere seconds later. I can burn it. I can stream it (albeit limitedly, with AAC.) There are significant advantages to this system - it's not just about reducing cost, although that too is a factor.
However, you are correct regarding the purchasing of tracks by length: I think Apple should have released the service allowing individual tracks purchased at 99 cents, and entire albums at $7.99, because basically, music falls into two camps: one where I'd like the entire album, or where I'd like a single, or several tracks that pique my interest. This current offering addresses the latter; I imagine they'll introduce the former as soon as they can.
Incidentally, if you go and see if a feature film playing at an IMAX theater, make sure to get there early: we got seats that were just slightly off center and closer to the floor. The experience was painful, and not just because of the dialogue. (Although they did cut out the scene in the fields)
The editor is called Midas...looks pretty cool.
...and that's new too.
Just thought I'd enlighten anyway who, after reading this review, decided to purchase one (even if it did lose to the SP by 1 point ).
"Put the dice away, before I take them away."
Yes, but a quick read of the article determines that it doesn't address the points made by the original poster. McGovern's gripes include our litigious society, and the complicated laws and tax issues regarding small business ownership. The original poster was bitching about the high cost of wages and health benefits imposed upon the poor business owners by greedy, evil, shifty-eyed unions. The original post described workers as though they were leeches, whereas McGovern views them with concern:
Yeah, a story like that has to be true. No one every makes come-uppance tales about people of different opinions to show them suffering from their misguided ways.
Hah, well, in the words of Ronald Reagan's press secretary, responding to one of the president's anecdotes that was untrue: "Well, it's a good story, though. It made the point, didn't it?"
Lisa: Remember Dad, "All glory is fleeting."
Homer: So?
Lisa: "Beware the Ides of March."
Homer: No!
Lisa: Dad, I know you think you're happy now, but it's not going to last forever.
Homer: Everything lasts forever.
Poor Salon, the poor, "New Media" company that was supposed to eat 'old media' and own the world in 5 years...Fuck That.
Heh, you bought them when they were trading at $15 a share, didn't you?