I've always had crappy VCRs, so I guess I am used to low quality.
I guess I don't see much point in a Tivo type deal for radio, if you want do do talk radio the VHS deal works well, and if you want music your method would probably work well. And really how much good radio is there? NPR has most of their stuff online, and who would want to tape anything from the Clear Channel empire..
Try this, I have read about it, but never tried it. But what you do is run the audio out of your stereo into the audio in of your VCR, then you can get like 6 hours of audio onto a VHS tape. I would guess you could just set the VCR timer to tape when the show you care about airs. Quality probably isn't exciting, but radio is the source so it's not going to be great no matter what you do.
I'd think that for just checking your e-mail it'd be easier/cheaper to add some sort of internet connectivity to your cell phone. I know the Moto T720 I had a few months ago would check pop mail. Of course for me who cares, I hardly ever get e-mail. And FYI don't buy the T720, it's a POS.
I don't get why the machines don't just make everyone in the Matrix rich, then why the hell would they want to rebel anyway? It'd be rich in virtual world vs. fighting machines in some crappy world. How many people are gonna choose fighting?
No more than likely Harry posted 5 pages of what he was doing for 48 hours before he saw it, what he ate for breakfast, how many times he peed that day, AND THEN IT WAS THE MOST INCREDIBLE MOVIE HE EVER SAW!!!!!!!!!!!!!
AICN IS A *JOKE*.
It's kind of ironic isn't it, my first real computer was a Mac LC, switched to Windows when I got the chance because OS 7.whatever was so closed off. Now I am on OS X because it's more open than Windows and more polished than Linux. I think a lot of Windows' success can be attributed to it being more open than MacOS was back in the day, and now the tables have turned.
I just send feedback telling them I am an iBook owner(well sorta, mine is broken but should have a new one in a month or so), and love OS X and won't be leaving their platform, but I thought it would be great if they would bring Quicktime and iTunes to Linux. Linux needs applications like those.
I would disagree when it comes to Dell laptops. I had one for about two years, never again. In my experience their desktops are pretty good though. Still have a Dimension v333c that runs fine, only problem with it is that the CD-ROM is pretty flaky, but they all seem to do that at the 4-5 year mark.
You make a good point, and I shouldn't have bitched about those things since I haven't really played in Linux for close to a year.
Our household has two iBooks and two white box PCs. My girlfreinds kids have the PCs, which run XP. I would love to get them Macs, but I don't have the cash, and I would love to get them to stop using Windows, but one attempt at that was very ugly. Maybe that's where Linux developers need to look in terms of desktop usability. Go find a 12-16 year old girl, put Redhat on her box and then listen to the never ending bitching. Write down the issues and you have what Linux needs to own the world:)
That's not a fair assertion. I don't feel Linux is ready for the desktop either, but I also miss some of the flexibility it gave me now(I replaced my Dell with an iBook). I liked the way I had my Gnome desktop set up, I liked KDE, I liked a lot of the applications. But then you had the dependency chasing to deal with, fucking with fonts to get thinks looking decent, the inability to copy and paste between some apps, little things like that. I believe linux is very close to being a great desktop, but it's not quite there. OS X gives me much of what linux did, but also a GUI I don't have to fuck with, and that's why I am on OS X.
Fortunately for film studios they don't need to do this sort of editing, they can just hit up Ain't It Cool News for a great review of even the worst shit.
Well make sure you call before your 1 year of AppleCare runs out. They asked me to reset the PRAM, which I had already tried, and after I told them that they started the battery exchange process. It's an odd problem, my girlfriend has the same iBook I do, bought used on eBay, and her battery doesn't have this problem.
No TechTV isn't preaching to nerds, they are preaching to people that want to be nerds. TechTV is for the technically inept. Not that that is bad, I just don't think it's terribly technical. They aren't an Ars...
I think your fears are unfounded. Linux on the desktop is starting to take shape, and by the time Longhorn ships it might even be a viable canidate for many people. Why would MS release an OS that breaks legacy compatibility just as their cheif competition gets it's act together on the desktop? I don't think they are that stupid.
That most of the major changes touted for Longhorn are gonig to slip into Blackcomb, and Longhorn will be another ho-hum release along the lines of XP. But come Blackcomb say goodbye to Win32 API, NTFS, backward compatibility...
I think it all might be irrelevant when.net based apps come to pass. At that point does windows really matter anymore? Windows is a launchpad for.net, after it takes off who cares what platform office is running on as long as it's licensed. Office.net on OS X? why not Office.net on Linux? why not. The strengh of windows is nothing buy applications, so once.net is up and running I see no reason for MS not to port it to whatever..
My iBook 600 pops up that little almost to reserve power box after it's been sleeping unplugged for a while. That doesn't really bother me, just close it and forget about it. There was an Apple KB article about it, and as I recall it's just some bug. But I also have the sudden sleep issue, other day it was at like 45% and did that, plugged in and battery meter said 0%. So I don't know how it used 45% instantly...
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I miss the Stern show. When I lived outside Pittsburgh I'd listen to it a good bit, then I moved to Nashville and no more Stern...
I guess I don't see much point in a Tivo type deal for radio, if you want do do talk radio the VHS deal works well, and if you want music your method would probably work well. And really how much good radio is there? NPR has most of their stuff online, and who would want to tape anything from the Clear Channel empire..
Try this, I have read about it, but never tried it. But what you do is run the audio out of your stereo into the audio in of your VCR, then you can get like 6 hours of audio onto a VHS tape. I would guess you could just set the VCR timer to tape when the show you care about airs. Quality probably isn't exciting, but radio is the source so it's not going to be great no matter what you do.
I'd think that for just checking your e-mail it'd be easier/cheaper to add some sort of internet connectivity to your cell phone. I know the Moto T720 I had a few months ago would check pop mail. Of course for me who cares, I hardly ever get e-mail. And FYI don't buy the T720, it's a POS.
I got a gamecube for two reasons, Donkey Kong Racing, which is shitcanned I think, and this.. Mario Kart ruled..
I don't get why the machines don't just make everyone in the Matrix rich, then why the hell would they want to rebel anyway? It'd be rich in virtual world vs. fighting machines in some crappy world. How many people are gonna choose fighting?
No more than likely Harry posted 5 pages of what he was doing for 48 hours before he saw it, what he ate for breakfast, how many times he peed that day, AND THEN IT WAS THE MOST INCREDIBLE MOVIE HE EVER SAW!!!!!!!!!!!!!
AICN IS A *JOKE*.
I read somewhere that it's a bar near Whistler or Blackcomb, and fit in with the mountain code names they have been using for a while.
It's kind of ironic isn't it, my first real computer was a Mac LC, switched to Windows when I got the chance because OS 7.whatever was so closed off. Now I am on OS X because it's more open than Windows and more polished than Linux. I think a lot of Windows' success can be attributed to it being more open than MacOS was back in the day, and now the tables have turned.
I just send feedback telling them I am an iBook owner(well sorta, mine is broken but should have a new one in a month or so), and love OS X and won't be leaving their platform, but I thought it would be great if they would bring Quicktime and iTunes to Linux. Linux needs applications like those.
I would disagree when it comes to Dell laptops. I had one for about two years, never again. In my experience their desktops are pretty good though. Still have a Dimension v333c that runs fine, only problem with it is that the CD-ROM is pretty flaky, but they all seem to do that at the 4-5 year mark.
Best post ever.
Exactly. I was pumped last year to watch their live E3 coverage, but no...instead of keynotes like in '01, the Screensavers... TechTV is useless.
You make a good point, and I shouldn't have bitched about those things since I haven't really played in Linux for close to a year. Our household has two iBooks and two white box PCs. My girlfreinds kids have the PCs, which run XP. I would love to get them Macs, but I don't have the cash, and I would love to get them to stop using Windows, but one attempt at that was very ugly. Maybe that's where Linux developers need to look in terms of desktop usability. Go find a 12-16 year old girl, put Redhat on her box and then listen to the never ending bitching. Write down the issues and you have what Linux needs to own the world:)
That's not a fair assertion. I don't feel Linux is ready for the desktop either, but I also miss some of the flexibility it gave me now(I replaced my Dell with an iBook). I liked the way I had my Gnome desktop set up, I liked KDE, I liked a lot of the applications. But then you had the dependency chasing to deal with, fucking with fonts to get thinks looking decent, the inability to copy and paste between some apps, little things like that. I believe linux is very close to being a great desktop, but it's not quite there. OS X gives me much of what linux did, but also a GUI I don't have to fuck with, and that's why I am on OS X.
Fortunately for film studios they don't need to do this sort of editing, they can just hit up Ain't It Cool News for a great review of even the worst shit.
Well make sure you call before your 1 year of AppleCare runs out. They asked me to reset the PRAM, which I had already tried, and after I told them that they started the battery exchange process. It's an odd problem, my girlfriend has the same iBook I do, bought used on eBay, and her battery doesn't have this problem.
I called AppleCare with this problem(mine cut out around 30-40%) and they sent me a new battery, no argument.
Actually probably not, with that lawsuit Nintendo brought I bet the Playstation name goes away with the next Sony console.
Unless IE's market share decreases somehow. IE hasn't changed much since it got the bulk of the market.
No TechTV isn't preaching to nerds, they are preaching to people that want to be nerds. TechTV is for the technically inept. Not that that is bad, I just don't think it's terribly technical. They aren't an Ars...
I think your fears are unfounded. Linux on the desktop is starting to take shape, and by the time Longhorn ships it might even be a viable canidate for many people. Why would MS release an OS that breaks legacy compatibility just as their cheif competition gets it's act together on the desktop? I don't think they are that stupid.
That most of the major changes touted for Longhorn are gonig to slip into Blackcomb, and Longhorn will be another ho-hum release along the lines of XP. But come Blackcomb say goodbye to Win32 API, NTFS, backward compatibility...
I think it all might be irrelevant when .net based apps come to pass. At that point does windows really matter anymore? Windows is a launchpad for .net, after it takes off who cares what platform office is running on as long as it's licensed. Office.net on OS X? why not Office.net on Linux? why not. The strengh of windows is nothing buy applications, so once .net is up and running I see no reason for MS not to port it to whatever..
My iBook 600 pops up that little almost to reserve power box after it's been sleeping unplugged for a while. That doesn't really bother me, just close it and forget about it. There was an Apple KB article about it, and as I recall it's just some bug. But I also have the sudden sleep issue, other day it was at like 45% and did that, plugged in and battery meter said 0%. So I don't know how it used 45% instantly...