Honest question (I don't want to hash up capitalism vs socialism). How long did it take you to get scheduled for your surgery?
I tore my ACL for a third time (well, not my ACL, my replacement ACL from the previous surgery) on December 28th '07. I was in the orthopedic on the 8th of January.
Friday I had surgery (Jan 25th), less than one month from injury to surgery. Every time I bring up Sicko to be a devils advocate we hear the horrors of waiting years, blah, blah. And of course the internet horror stories only have hyperboles of both systems.
My parents 'paid' for both the first two, I'm not looking forward to this one. My toe dislocation (which wasn't too bad) cost almost $2500 after insurance.
Only on./ can I get a +4 Insightful for a Billy Madison quote.
Yes I use 7.0 at work and Sametime 6.5. Sametime can sometimes take up to 2 minutes to launch (M90, Dual core, 4 GB of RAM). When notes crashes I can't just kill notes. I have to find all the stupid background tasks associated with it.
Thankfully my current company does actually use it more than just as an e-mail client. Vacation Time, Performance Reviews, Meeting room scheduling all handled through Notes. And the web interface for 7.0 is MUCH cleaner.
IBM, what you've just developed is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever used. At no point in your rambling, incoherent interface were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational program. Everyone in this everywhere is now dumber for having used it. I award you no credit, and may God have mercy on your soul.
It's the main distribution media for software... None of that was ever true of the floppy. The 80s and 90s would like to have a word with you. Hell, I remember making my own 7.5.1 Macintosh boot disk (Required deleting color resources and stuff). 1.44 MB and I could boot into a full GUI.
Yes, software was distributed primarily on Floppy's.
And Apple (as they pointed out in the keynote) is hoping to move Music and Movie distribution from physical media to the Internet.
Doc: "Mr. Fusion powers the time circuits and the flux capacitor, but the internal combustion engine runs on ordinary gasoline. It always has. There's not gonna be a gas station around here until sometime in the next century. Without gasoline, we can't get the DeLorean up to 88 miles per hour."
I second this, and my process is now automagic now that I've spent some time learning rtorrent config AND I finally found a linux cronnable RSS parser.
pytvshows To rtorrent (Read the Common Tasks page to see how to have it move movies/TV shows to their own folder and set up different watch folders)
Plus XBMC having the destination directory as a source and as soon as TV shows are done they pop up.
Actually. Yes you can. It's not as simple as a quick "Roll Back this install" but by no means is it as impossible to revert as some programs in XP.
Step 1: Download 7.3.1 for what ever version of OSX you're using. http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/ Step 2: Copy the installer package to the desktop. Step 3: Right click and "Show Package Contents", open "Contents" Step 4: Open "QuickTime_Leopard.dist" in a text editor (Not sure what it is called in other versions. Step 5: Scroll down to "newerQuickTimePresent()" (All Apple pre and postflight scripts are just that, scripts. You can write them in bash, perl, ruby, python, php, etc.) Step 6: Change "return false" to "return true". Or Comment it out, etc Step 7: Install.
"I don't have to wade through hours/days of crappy torrents until I find a good copy"
I don't know where you're getting your torrents from but TVrss.net and EZTV.it usually have the shows up within a half an hour after they've completed.
I use rtorrent and pytvshows to grab the torrents. Occasionally they nuke a release, but it's rare.
BTJunkie automatically sorts by seeds. Please point me to one of these so called 'crappy' torrents.
In Levi's case, they just run a separate production line. Less thread count, less stitches, cheaper materials. If you get a pair of Levis from walmart and compare them to a pair of Levis from another store, you may very well get a completely separate pair of pants.
Snapper Lawnmowers on the other hand put their foot down and said No. Walmart asked for that $5 discount and Snapper came back and said No and pulled there mowers.
No there won't be. The MagSafe is patented and Apple hasn't licensed it to ANY other companies yet. If there was a MagSafe alternative charger by now, don't you think they would have come out in the last year?
For one thing, as was pointed out by an earlier articled linked to by slashdot, it's counterintuitive. It is not consistent with our every day experience, or at least not with aspects of our experience that we recognize as having those qualities. Exactly. Why the hell are there so many damn ugly and stupid people. If evolution worked like it should these people should have been out of the gene pool long ago.
Yes, because everytime I see a "H3LLO WELCOME TO MY MySPACE BITCHES. HEAR ARE MY FAVERITE BANDZ!" myspace page I wonder what custom Kernel he's running.
When you insert a "bad" CD into the Mac it'll spin up and down and then spit it back out if it doesn't find anything and isn't blank.
Blank CD/DVDs will prompt you for what you want to do. I just did this seeing if my Mac Could read Wii disks (I knew it couldn't I just wanted to try). After about 30 seconds of it spinning up and down erratically, it just spit it back out.
Even then, all disks/drives show up in Disk UTILITY when not mounted. So you can eject/unmount it from there.
Or if you're really stuck you can always open the tray with (if it has a tray such as the MacPro) drutil tray open
Or just eject the slot loading drive with drutil eject.
So hack it. I currently have an XBMC, but I'm eyeing an AppleTV for my next rev of hardware (and maybe by then XBMC will even be stable on linux which runs on Apple TV)
Target audience? When was the last time you were in an Apple store? The place was flooded with teens and parents. Right before fall semester starts its flooded with college freshmen. I was in there after christmas. A guy was in there with his daughter, she was going to get an iPhone. She was 14. There is a large population that falls under "rich" but above $100,000 a year. People that probably have insane amount of debt but have the latest and greatest.
Could you imagine this in a college setting? 90% of these kids just use AIM, Mail, & Word. And before you go off ranting about how expensive it is for some college kid. Imagine those kids who drive new cars to college. The ones whose parents live in 500,000 houses and drive the latest from Mercedes. $5k is a drop in the bucket, I'm sure they can find another credit card to put it on.
But you know what, they keep Apple in business. And as long as they do that I'm happy with the other toys Apple gives me (ZFS, Unix, Stuff that just works(tm)).
The same reason I don't have a problem with BMW selling their 3 and 5 series to any yuppie that wants to buy it. People that won't even touch the performance of what it's capable of. Because those people give BMW money to make nice toys for me like the M3 which I can take out to the track.
Then get a MacBook. Sorry but you are not going to fit it into that form factor.
"Wah Wah Wah, I want a replaceable battery in the iPod." Get a Nomad. Some companies even have players which take AAs. "But they're not tiny like an iPod".
Compare a AA to an iPod... there's no way you're going to get it into that form factor.
Go take the battery out of your laptop. Notice all the extra plastic around the battery. And then the laptop has to have plastic where the battery sits. So you're already essentially doubling the case thickness.
Do you want a laptop that is 0.16" to 0.76" thick? Go grab a ruler and put that in perspective. There is no way in hell you're going to do that with a standard external battery.
I thought this was a pretty big part of todays Keynote:
Touchstone, Miramax, MGM, Lionsgate, Newline, FOX, WB, Disney, Paramount, Universal, Sony all on board. Library titles: $2.99, New Releases: $3.99, HD rentals are $4.99.
Rules: 30 days to start watching. 24 hours to finish Watch anywhere (Macs, PCs, all current iPods and iPhone
Do you know of a company or product similar to the Touchstream but is JUST a large trackpad?
I love my MacBookPro trackpad but at work I can't stand not being able to stroll, move, double click etc. I'd hate to buy a touchstream just for this feature but I'd love to have a 4x4 'trackpad' that I could plug into my workstation at work and use.
Even better is you can use dry ice or liquid nitrogen (if you can get a hold of it). best part is you can even mix it right in with the ingredients without having to worry.
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Honest question (I don't want to hash up capitalism vs socialism). How long did it take you to get scheduled for your surgery?
I tore my ACL for a third time (well, not my ACL, my replacement ACL from the previous surgery) on December 28th '07. I was in the orthopedic on the 8th of January.
Friday I had surgery (Jan 25th), less than one month from injury to surgery. Every time I bring up Sicko to be a devils advocate we hear the horrors of waiting years, blah, blah. And of course the internet horror stories only have hyperboles of both systems.
My parents 'paid' for both the first two, I'm not looking forward to this one. My toe dislocation (which wasn't too bad) cost almost $2500 after insurance.
Only on ./ can I get a +4 Insightful for a Billy Madison quote.
Yes I use 7.0 at work and Sametime 6.5. Sametime can sometimes take up to 2 minutes to launch (M90, Dual core, 4 GB of RAM). When notes crashes I can't just kill notes. I have to find all the stupid background tasks associated with it.
Thankfully my current company does actually use it more than just as an e-mail client. Vacation Time, Performance Reviews, Meeting room scheduling all handled through Notes. And the web interface for 7.0 is MUCH cleaner.
IBM, what you've just developed is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever used. At no point in your rambling, incoherent interface were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational program. Everyone in this everywhere is now dumber for having used it. I award you no credit, and may God have mercy on your soul.
Yes, software was distributed primarily on Floppy's.
And Apple (as they pointed out in the keynote) is hoping to move Music and Movie distribution from physical media to the Internet.
Doc: "Mr. Fusion powers the time circuits and the flux capacitor, but the internal combustion engine runs on ordinary gasoline. It always has. There's not gonna be a gas station around here until sometime in the next century. Without gasoline, we can't get the DeLorean up to 88 miles per hour."
I second this, and my process is now automagic now that I've spent some time learning rtorrent config AND I finally found a linux cronnable RSS parser.
pytvshows
To
rtorrent
(Read the Common Tasks page to see how to have it move movies/TV shows to their own folder and set up different watch folders)
Plus XBMC having the destination directory as a source and as soon as TV shows are done they pop up.
Actually. Yes you can. It's not as simple as a quick "Roll Back this install" but by no means is it as impossible to revert as some programs in XP.
Step 1: Download 7.3.1 for what ever version of OSX you're using. http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/
Step 2: Copy the installer package to the desktop.
Step 3: Right click and "Show Package Contents", open "Contents"
Step 4: Open "QuickTime_Leopard.dist" in a text editor (Not sure what it is called in other versions.
Step 5: Scroll down to "newerQuickTimePresent()" (All Apple pre and postflight scripts are just that, scripts. You can write them in bash, perl, ruby, python, php, etc.)
Step 6: Change "return false" to "return true". Or Comment it out, etc
Step 7: Install.
"I don't have to wade through hours/days of crappy torrents until I find a good copy"
I don't know where you're getting your torrents from but TVrss.net and EZTV.it usually have the shows up within a half an hour after they've completed.
I use rtorrent and pytvshows to grab the torrents. Occasionally they nuke a release, but it's rare.
BTJunkie automatically sorts by seeds. Please point me to one of these so called 'crappy' torrents.
In Levi's case, they just run a separate production line. Less thread count, less stitches, cheaper materials. If you get a pair of Levis from walmart and compare them to a pair of Levis from another store, you may very well get a completely separate pair of pants.
Snapper Lawnmowers on the other hand put their foot down and said No. Walmart asked for that $5 discount and Snapper came back and said No and pulled there mowers.
Some companies still have a bit of integrity.
No there won't be. The MagSafe is patented and Apple hasn't licensed it to ANY other companies yet. If there was a MagSafe alternative charger by now, don't you think they would have come out in the last year?
Yes, because everytime I see a "H3LLO WELCOME TO MY MySPACE BITCHES. HEAR ARE MY FAVERITE BANDZ!" myspace page I wonder what custom Kernel he's running.
xBox is now 6+ years old, the AppleTV is now about a year old. The AppleTV was "hacked" MUCH faster than the Xbox (given that it's more or less OS X).
I just found an rTorrent front end. Pair that up with some hacked up version of TVShows.app and I have DVR-ish device.
I doubt that the latest update is new firmware, I bet it's just an update to the OS X under system.
The XBOX is also large, loud and ugly and doesn't do HD.
And if it still sucks you can always turn the Apple TV into a full fledged OS X machine (slow).
When you insert a "bad" CD into the Mac it'll spin up and down and then spit it back out if it doesn't find anything and isn't blank.
Blank CD/DVDs will prompt you for what you want to do. I just did this seeing if my Mac Could read Wii disks (I knew it couldn't I just wanted to try). After about 30 seconds of it spinning up and down erratically, it just spit it back out.
Even then, all disks/drives show up in Disk UTILITY when not mounted. So you can eject/unmount it from there.
Or if you're really stuck you can always open the tray with (if it has a tray such as the MacPro)
drutil tray open
Or just eject the slot loading drive with
drutil eject.
No rebooting, none of that other stuff.
Nice attempt at a Mac troll though.
So hack it. I currently have an XBMC, but I'm eyeing an AppleTV for my next rev of hardware (and maybe by then XBMC will even be stable on linux which runs on Apple TV)
http://wiki.awkwardtv.org/wiki/Mount_a_Remote_Drive_via_NFS
http://wiki.awkwardtv.org/wiki/Mount_a_Remote_Drive_via_SMBFS
So basically they reinvented Quicksilver but for Windows.
It'll also lead to a pretty bad movie.
Target audience? When was the last time you were in an Apple store? The place was flooded with teens and parents. Right before fall semester starts its flooded with college freshmen. I was in there after christmas. A guy was in there with his daughter, she was going to get an iPhone. She was 14. There is a large population that falls under "rich" but above $100,000 a year. People that probably have insane amount of debt but have the latest and greatest.
Could you imagine this in a college setting? 90% of these kids just use AIM, Mail, & Word. And before you go off ranting about how expensive it is for some college kid. Imagine those kids who drive new cars to college. The ones whose parents live in 500,000 houses and drive the latest from Mercedes. $5k is a drop in the bucket, I'm sure they can find another credit card to put it on.
But you know what, they keep Apple in business. And as long as they do that I'm happy with the other toys Apple gives me (ZFS, Unix, Stuff that just works(tm)).
The same reason I don't have a problem with BMW selling their 3 and 5 series to any yuppie that wants to buy it. People that won't even touch the performance of what it's capable of. Because those people give BMW money to make nice toys for me like the M3 which I can take out to the track.
Then get a MacBook. Sorry but you are not going to fit it into that form factor.
"Wah Wah Wah, I want a replaceable battery in the iPod."
Get a Nomad. Some companies even have players which take AAs.
"But they're not tiny like an iPod".
Compare a AA to an iPod... there's no way you're going to get it into that form factor.
Go take the battery out of your laptop. Notice all the extra plastic around the battery. And then the laptop has to have plastic where the battery sits. So you're already essentially doubling the case thickness.
Do you want a laptop that is 0.16" to 0.76" thick? Go grab a ruler and put that in perspective. There is no way in hell you're going to do that with a standard external battery.
I thought this was a pretty big part of todays Keynote:
Touchstone, Miramax, MGM, Lionsgate, Newline, FOX, WB, Disney, Paramount, Universal, Sony all on board.
Library titles: $2.99,
New Releases: $3.99,
HD rentals are $4.99.
Rules: 30 days to start watching. 24 hours to finish
Watch anywhere (Macs, PCs, all current iPods and iPhone
Thanks MacRumors.
Loose is an adjective, the opposite of tight or contained: My shoes are loose.
Lose is a verb that means to suffer the loss of, to miss: I never lose bets.
Do you know of a company or product similar to the Touchstream but is JUST a large trackpad?
I love my MacBookPro trackpad but at work I can't stand not being able to stroll, move, double click etc. I'd hate to buy a touchstream just for this feature but I'd love to have a 4x4 'trackpad' that I could plug into my workstation at work and use.
If no one ever reinvented the wheel, we'd still be rolling around on stones.
Even better is you can use dry ice or liquid nitrogen (if you can get a hold of it). best part is you can even mix it right in with the ingredients without having to worry.