You could always generate a smart playlist of n-MB of music which has not been played in the last n-days selected at random. Setting iTunes to synch that playlist would effectively duplicate what AutoFill is doing.
What part of the U in UPC isn't quite clear? The entire retail sector is dependent on barcodes, so having propietary fiefdoms would likely cause greater overhead which would outweigh sales lost to barcode comparisson shoppers. Yes some of the big dogs would be able to get their own barcodes slugged in by the manufacturer (i.e., WalMart), but mom and pops or even regional chains? No way.
512MB DDR400 SDRAM - 1 DIMM
160GB Serial ATA drive
AirPort Extreme Card
Keyboard and Mouse + Mac OS X - U.S. English
17-inch widescreen LCD
1.8GHz PowerPC G5
SuperDrive (DVD-R/CD-RW)
NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 Ultra w/64MB video memory Subtotal $1,753.00
Now note that that's paying Apple prices for RAM - go with crucial save, probably, $40 right there. But more importantly the iMac has a 160GB SATA hard drive vs. the Hip-e's 120GB (which is probably not SATA) and an optical drive which can burn DVDs whereas the Hip-e cannot. I'm not going to get into the processor specs, but something tells me that a 1.8GHz G5 is going to run a bit faster than a 1.5GHz Pentium-M.
Summary: Hip-e is waaaaaay overpriced, even relative to Apple's pricing guidelines.
I had some bad luck with predictive entry on my T68 once. I was living in the Philippines, sharing a house with one of my coworkers. Texted him something similar to the following:
Cant find jews. Jews on table by door/tv? Plz find jews, bring to work.
Actually in many cases, they'll just mess with the metrics on the font, change the leading slightly, increase the gutter, etc. You can easily force an entire book to reflow, thus getting a "new" edition, without making any change of substance to the materiel.
I don't mean to sound overly cynical or lessen your experience, but I've never seen a disabled person waiting in a security queue. Usually the airline's gatestaff and the airport security personnel are smart enough to move the disabled through to the front of the queue, realizing that it both helps the disabled and speeds up the orderly processing of the queue.
In one notable difference from US security, last time I flew through Hong Kong I watched two airport security officers escort an elderly man with a walker all the way from the ticketing counter, through customs, and then drive him to his gate. (HK security is also more efficient than in the US with a lot less hand waving.)
The only real inconvenience was in the Phillipines
Were you flying Philippine Airlines (PAL) or a Cathay Pacific/PAL codeshare flight? PAL has strict guidelines for carry-on size and weight and, if your big metal machine part was heavy, it probably pushed you over the limit. I did a Cebu --> Manilla --> Hong flight a couple months back. I had to check one of my carry-ons as PAL only allows one piece under seven kilos on economy on domestic flights. Seven kilos is not a lot of weight... a couple books, a laptop, a bottle of water, etc. is enough to break 7kg easy.
I was just going to post the same... I used to hang out at a coffee shop (Bo's Coffee Club) in Cebu and paid about $.25/hour for wireless. The net cafe near our office was around $.50/hour and the cheapest I saw anywhere was abotu $.45/hour. (This is when the peso was at its weakest, close to 60 to the dollar.)
A friend and I were dining outside at Pranca a couple weeks ago and saw a couple groups go by --- our immediate response was, "Cool -- I want to steal one"
Wait a minute - you have 1500 CDs ripped as AIFFs? You have more invested in hard drives than I do in my car. Why don't you encode all those AIFFs into Apple Lossless? You'll drop file sizes 40-50% and still be able to losslessly transcode into whatever without having to rerip.
Coming late to the party but...
[W]ith it's beefy 19.5 MB download...
I can't speak for the Windows version but, on Mac OS X, the uncompressed disk image expands out to 29.4 MB. Of that, 19 MB is for non-English localizations.
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You could always generate a smart playlist of n-MB of music which has not been played in the last n-days selected at random. Setting iTunes to synch that playlist would effectively duplicate what AutoFill is doing.
What part of the U in UPC isn't quite clear? The entire retail sector is dependent on barcodes, so having propietary fiefdoms would likely cause greater overhead which would outweigh sales lost to barcode comparisson shoppers. Yes some of the big dogs would be able to get their own barcodes slugged in by the manufacturer (i.e., WalMart), but mom and pops or even regional chains? No way.
Similar iMac:
512MB DDR400 SDRAM - 1 DIMM
160GB Serial ATA drive
AirPort Extreme Card
Keyboard and Mouse + Mac OS X - U.S. English
17-inch widescreen LCD
1.8GHz PowerPC G5
SuperDrive (DVD-R/CD-RW)
NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 Ultra w/64MB video memory
Subtotal $1,753.00
Now note that that's paying Apple prices for RAM - go with crucial save, probably, $40 right there. But more importantly the iMac has a 160GB SATA hard drive vs. the Hip-e's 120GB (which is probably not SATA) and an optical drive which can burn DVDs whereas the Hip-e cannot. I'm not going to get into the processor specs, but something tells me that a 1.8GHz G5 is going to run a bit faster than a 1.5GHz Pentium-M.
Summary: Hip-e is waaaaaay overpriced, even relative to Apple's pricing guidelines.
I had some bad luck with predictive entry on my T68 once. I was living in the Philippines, sharing a house with one of my coworkers. Texted him something similar to the following:
Cant find jews. Jews on table by door/tv? Plz find jews, bring to work.
jews = 5397 = keys.
About the cables, there's a port in the stand to let you snake all your cables through a central point where they'll largely be hidden from view.
Errr, it's not made for that... it's 17 pounds, lacks an internal battery, lacks a touchscreen, lacks a stylus....
Original source for the images. Apple's bandwidth and servers are probably a little more /. proof
That's because JPG is lossy and will color shift on you.
ZTerm was ported to Mac OS X awhile ago. It's shareware, but it itches the scratch well enough.
Actually in many cases, they'll just mess with the metrics on the font, change the leading slightly, increase the gutter, etc. You can easily force an entire book to reflow, thus getting a "new" edition, without making any change of substance to the materiel.
I don't mean to sound overly cynical or lessen your experience, but I've never seen a disabled person waiting in a security queue. Usually the airline's gatestaff and the airport security personnel are smart enough to move the disabled through to the front of the queue, realizing that it both helps the disabled and speeds up the orderly processing of the queue.
In one notable difference from US security, last time I flew through Hong Kong I watched two airport security officers escort an elderly man with a walker all the way from the ticketing counter, through customs, and then drive him to his gate. (HK security is also more efficient than in the US with a lot less hand waving.)
The only real inconvenience was in the Phillipines
Were you flying Philippine Airlines (PAL) or a Cathay Pacific/PAL codeshare flight? PAL has strict guidelines for carry-on size and weight and, if your big metal machine part was heavy, it probably pushed you over the limit. I did a Cebu --> Manilla --> Hong flight a couple months back. I had to check one of my carry-ons as PAL only allows one piece under seven kilos on economy on domestic flights. Seven kilos is not a lot of weight... a couple books, a laptop, a bottle of water, etc. is enough to break 7kg easy.
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Please tell me you're thinking remotes and what not --- I'd hate to transfer music over bluetooth.
Everyone nows neither light nor sound propogate invacuum.
Would you like to explain that bit about light in a vacuum? I can see the sun...
Hell just call dial-a-song for the true experience. (718) 387-6962
I was just going to post the same... I used to hang out at a coffee shop (Bo's Coffee Club) in Cebu and paid about $.25/hour for wireless. The net cafe near our office was around $.50/hour and the cheapest I saw anywhere was abotu $.45/hour. (This is when the peso was at its weakest, close to 60 to the dollar.)
No, probably not --- it's meant to control iTunes on the host machine which would require it be directly connected to the machine running iTunes.
A friend and I were dining outside at Pranca a couple weeks ago and saw a couple groups go by --- our immediate response was, "Cool -- I want to steal one"
Wait a minute - you have 1500 CDs ripped as AIFFs? You have more invested in hard drives than I do in my car. Why don't you encode all those AIFFs into Apple Lossless? You'll drop file sizes 40-50% and still be able to losslessly transcode into whatever without having to rerip.
No you fool. A bomb detonator is a black box, 10" on each side, with a large red plunger handle at top and two wires coming out the sides.
What? No way.... with my airport I can't a signal in the park across the street, much less 14 km
Coming late to the party but... [W]ith it's beefy 19.5 MB download... I can't speak for the Windows version but, on Mac OS X, the uncompressed disk image expands out to 29.4 MB. Of that, 19 MB is for non-English localizations.
It's a cut-and-paste of a comment from a previous story
Gilgamesh and Genesis together provide 2 sources of the event. If anything, it strengthens the evidence.
Actually that's one source, not two. Genesis is a pretty clear derivative of Gilgamesh rather than an independent account