something to note about the program: it only covers ibooks with serial numbers between UV220xxxxxx and UV318xxxxxx. i have an ibook purchased 11/01 with a serial starting UV141 that's been back to apple 3 times for wonky video/freezing video problems. are they claiming that the earlier dual usb ibooks aren't susceptible to this problem? and don't even get me started on the spotty battery on this thing [you can find plenty of info on batteries not holding charges on the apple forums - unless they've deleted those too]
way to go apple! you've definitely lost a 10+ year customer with this crap...
TiVo's plans are not as ambitious because they don't include making content available throughout the home.
check out the home media option they started offering last year. it allows you to stream content from one tivo to another [along with music and photos from your pc]. if that's not offering content throughout the home then i don't know what is...
give it a little more time. i once thought like you, but then i bought an ibook which has been a constant string of nightmares [the problems with the ibook in addition to the moronic support people at apple who either don't bother to attempt to fix the product [1st time], or who do a very half-assed job fixing it and putting it back together [the 2nd and 3rd times it went in - plastic not snapped back together, screws that are almost falling out, etc]. oh, and if yer laptop ever does go in you'd better hope they don't scratch the screen while working on it, cos then they'll try to charge you 700 bucks to replace the screen when you inform them that they've scratched it [even with an applecare warranty].
like i said, i once thought like you, but then i saw what apple is really about. i love OS X, but my 10+ years of buying and using apple products has come to an end thanks to this piece of shit ibook. way to go apple!
if you're looking for a piece of multitrack recording hardware skip things with silly scratch pads and go for something useful, like the tascam US-428 or US-224. or get a nice pci card from m-audio. the tascams are great cos they have full control surfaces which interface with quite a few multitrack progs. or you could try mapping the control buttons via midi to yer favorite multitrack prog. either way, like i said, skip the silly scratch pads [unless you really are going to use them] and use the right tool for the job...
but after seeing all of the not too great reviews and comments re: tablet PCs [and also my experience poking at them at various stores], i have to wonder if MS's plan for those smart displays [essentially LCD thin clients running off a windows terminal services machine on the backend] will ever come to fruition...anyone heard anything about those in the past year or so? they always sounded like crippled tablet pcs that cost about the same [or more when you factor in the machine on the backend]...
it'll be interesting to see what other possibilities there will be with this kit...a linux install that doesn't require the official kit maybe? qcast that can transfer files to and then read from the local drive?
this is something that i always try to interject into any sort of discussion about the need for space exploration. as best as i can figure, space will always win out over studying the earth and oceans because it exemplifies "the great unknown" to the average person. so many people fail to see that there are thousands upon thousands of unknown types of organisms crawling around and living in deep sea environments that until recently we thought were completely uninhabitable. yet these things manage to survive. if we've underestimated life's ability to survive on our own planet, then how can we even begin making these assumptions about what can survive "out there"?
an upper limit for long-term survival of our species on Earth is ~1 billion years.
where exactly are you getting this 1 billion years from? mankind as we know it has been on this earth for approx. 2 million years [and that's being generous]. any sort of life [algae, bacteria, etc] is believed to have started evolving about 1.5 billion years ago. to say that our species will last up to a billion years is utterly absurd given modern evolutionary theory. us and any sort of genetic offspring of ours will be long gone by the time the sun becomes a serious concern.
the fact that a media exec "pirated" a Forrester report doesn't surprise me in the least. several years ago i was temping at one of the major record labels [something i swear i'll never do again]. quite literally about 2/3 of the people there had file sharing enabled on their machines giving anyone access to all the mp3s they had. of course, most of these people will probably claim that because they're on the other side of the fence that they have every right to share files to their coworkers in the name of "promotion".
if you set up the machines to use remote home directories from an os x server it will use AFP by default. also, i believe in earlier versions of os x, the server browser only showed AFP servers. i could be wrong on that last point tho. either way, they've certainly made the os play a lot nicer with various connection methods over the years.
actually, i saw a guy from the EFF on the news tonight. i think it was world news tonight on abc/disney. anyhow, he was mentioning that it sets a scary precedent for the riaa [or any copyright holder] to be able to get your personal info from your isp just by claiming infringement without any burden of proof. nothing your average/. reader wouldn't know about. but still, it was on mainstream news, which i think was the point that i was trying to make.
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this brings up an interesting point. if you as the artist/author/whatever know that something that you've created is crap, should you destroy it or hang onto it? if you're well-known/famous, this "junk" is bound to find it's way out to the public after your death. so what do you do? i realize that keeping crappy creations around can be quite beneficial, in that you may reuse ideas or themes in other pieces that you deem finish-worthy. i guess it's just a risk every artist has to take...
oh, and btw, if the pixies chose to release bailey's walk, i'd be really scared to hear the stuff that they didn't want to release... : p
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something to note about the program: it only covers ibooks with serial numbers between UV220xxxxxx and UV318xxxxxx. i have an ibook purchased 11/01 with a serial starting UV141 that's been back to apple 3 times for wonky video/freezing video problems. are they claiming that the earlier dual usb ibooks aren't susceptible to this problem? and don't even get me started on the spotty battery on this thing [you can find plenty of info on batteries not holding charges on the apple forums - unless they've deleted those too]
way to go apple! you've definitely lost a 10+ year customer with this crap...
i think sony would probably support betamax instead...
TiVo's plans are not as ambitious because they don't include making content available throughout the home.
check out the home media option they started offering last year. it allows you to stream content from one tivo to another [along with music and photos from your pc]. if that's not offering content throughout the home then i don't know what is...
give it a little more time. i once thought like you, but then i bought an ibook which has been a constant string of nightmares [the problems with the ibook in addition to the moronic support people at apple who either don't bother to attempt to fix the product [1st time], or who do a very half-assed job fixing it and putting it back together [the 2nd and 3rd times it went in - plastic not snapped back together, screws that are almost falling out, etc]. oh, and if yer laptop ever does go in you'd better hope they don't scratch the screen while working on it, cos then they'll try to charge you 700 bucks to replace the screen when you inform them that they've scratched it [even with an applecare warranty].
like i said, i once thought like you, but then i saw what apple is really about. i love OS X, but my 10+ years of buying and using apple products has come to an end thanks to this piece of shit ibook. way to go apple!
if you're looking for a piece of multitrack recording hardware skip things with silly scratch pads and go for something useful, like the tascam US-428 or US-224. or get a nice pci card from m-audio. the tascams are great cos they have full control surfaces which interface with quite a few multitrack progs. or you could try mapping the control buttons via midi to yer favorite multitrack prog. either way, like i said, skip the silly scratch pads [unless you really are going to use them] and use the right tool for the job...
but after seeing all of the not too great reviews and comments re: tablet PCs [and also my experience poking at them at various stores], i have to wonder if MS's plan for those smart displays [essentially LCD thin clients running off a windows terminal services machine on the backend] will ever come to fruition...anyone heard anything about those in the past year or so? they always sounded like crippled tablet pcs that cost about the same [or more when you factor in the machine on the backend]...
yes! make the stupid people pay extra to use their computers!
it'll be interesting to see what other possibilities there will be with this kit...a linux install that doesn't require the official kit maybe? qcast that can transfer files to and then read from the local drive?
why does this remind me of that episode where kent brockman is reading the news for CNNBCBS (a division of ABC)?
does this mean i can mention that i'm a drug wars master on my resume?
this is something that i always try to interject into any sort of discussion about the need for space exploration. as best as i can figure, space will always win out over studying the earth and oceans because it exemplifies "the great unknown" to the average person. so many people fail to see that there are thousands upon thousands of unknown types of organisms crawling around and living in deep sea environments that until recently we thought were completely uninhabitable. yet these things manage to survive. if we've underestimated life's ability to survive on our own planet, then how can we even begin making these assumptions about what can survive "out there"?
an upper limit for long-term survival of our species on Earth is ~1 billion years.
where exactly are you getting this 1 billion years from? mankind as we know it has been on this earth for approx. 2 million years [and that's being generous]. any sort of life [algae, bacteria, etc] is believed to have started evolving about 1.5 billion years ago. to say that our species will last up to a billion years is utterly absurd given modern evolutionary theory. us and any sort of genetic offspring of ours will be long gone by the time the sun becomes a serious concern.
the fact that a media exec "pirated" a Forrester report doesn't surprise me in the least. several years ago i was temping at one of the major record labels [something i swear i'll never do again]. quite literally about 2/3 of the people there had file sharing enabled on their machines giving anyone access to all the mp3s they had. of course, most of these people will probably claim that because they're on the other side of the fence that they have every right to share files to their coworkers in the name of "promotion".
if you set up the machines to use remote home directories from an os x server it will use AFP by default. also, i believe in earlier versions of os x, the server browser only showed AFP servers. i could be wrong on that last point tho. either way, they've certainly made the os play a lot nicer with various connection methods over the years.
actually, i saw a guy from the EFF on the news tonight. i think it was world news tonight on abc/disney. anyhow, he was mentioning that it sets a scary precedent for the riaa [or any copyright holder] to be able to get your personal info from your isp just by claiming infringement without any burden of proof. nothing your average /. reader wouldn't know about. but still, it was on mainstream news, which i think was the point that i was trying to make.
this brings up an interesting point. if you as the artist/author/whatever know that something that you've created is crap, should you destroy it or hang onto it? if you're well-known/famous, this "junk" is bound to find it's way out to the public after your death. so what do you do? i realize that keeping crappy creations around can be quite beneficial, in that you may reuse ideas or themes in other pieces that you deem finish-worthy. i guess it's just a risk every artist has to take...
oh, and btw, if the pixies chose to release bailey's walk, i'd be really scared to hear the stuff that they didn't want to release... : p
so there we go...his name is 85193. he's obviously too l337 for me, cos i can't make any sense out of that...BSIGE?
does this mean that places that sell below SMRP are gonna be selling these discs at 7.99-8.99 or cheaper?
"and if my accountant is watching please DON'T STOP PAYMENT on this check"
sawry, just needed a little tweaking...
what about people using laptop trackpads? or those pencil eraser nubs?
One song on Eigenradio is worth at least twenty songs on old radio.
i'm trying to tune in but i'm not hearing anything...i'd say that makes it better than old radio...
where's the any key?
i guess it's time to start dumping all that sco stock i've been buying up...
that intellivision speech synthesizer thingy certainly helped a few kids with their listening comprehension skills
maybe apple should just go back to calling it zeroconf. that sounds so much cooler anyways...