I have had a handful of spims over the years (I always just reject receipt of the message if I don't know the sender) but nothing in at least 6 months.
And as an adendum to my prior post, I also need the landline for TiVo (as others have mentioned) and a security system. Hmmm - my chances of ditching the landline are getting less and less.
They hook the cable box into the phone line (as well as the cable, of course) to download the on-screen channel info and schedules. They probably also use it for pay-per-view and some form of TV spyware, I'm sure. I do know that the signal goes both ways.
I'm getting ready to move, and thought I would ditch the landline and make the switch to a cable modem, since DSL is currently the only thing holding me back (I thought). Then I remembered that my digital cable also requires a phone line. D'ohh! Guess I'm stuck with a home phone I never use.
yeah, and I'm sure you are holding out for Metallica, too.
Troll or not, this brings up a good point - there are certain bands that are in all likelyhood never going to show up on a pay music service like iTunes. Apple records is still battling Apple computer after all these years, so no beatles. Metallica is still a big opponent to online music, so no Metallica - and so on. Bring back the original Napster so I can download like its 1999!
The limit is 10 CDs of the exact same playlist. This is reasonable, considering the only one people who would likely need 10+ of the exact same CDs are true pirates who are trying to sell the disks. Change the song order, add or delete a song from the playlist, and you get anothe 10 CDs to burn.
Umm - about 20 minutes later? According to the article
Chapters will be available nightly at 8:20 ET on the Star Wars online service Hyperspace ($19.95/year; go to www.starwars.com), and on starwars.com and www.cartoonnetwork.com the next day.
The also neglected to mention that it really isnt a billion dollar deal, more of a $200 million dollar deal, since not everyone will redeem their music. Stil a heck of a lot of money, but more plausible.
By todays definition, does this count as a "Weapon of mass destruction" then? As horrible as the damage would been, it seems that phrase is highly overused from the day when it just meant Nukes.
1. Burn a CD
2. Rip the CD into the format of my choosing.
Is a "hurdle" that the author cannot surrmount. He explains the two easy steps right there! Sure, its somewhat of a pain, but the apple format is not really an obstacle to playing the music on other devices than an iPod and making as many copies as you want. I've purchased about 50 songs so far, burned them all to CDs for playing in my car, and ripped them back to mp3s for playing in WinAmp at work.
You misunderstand me. Obviously, Christmas is about Christ and Christianity. However, a holiday at that time of the year was celebrated by "Pagans" (people not believing in God) a very long time ago. From what I understand, early Christians set their Christmas holiday at the same time, even though Jesus was not really born in December.
What are you talking about? Pagans have been around for 1000s of years, and predate all of the modern religions. Where do you think Christmas came from before the whole Christianity thing? Pagan holiday celebrating the shortest day of the year, and the return of the days getting longer.
It doesn't matter what he was taking photos of, the very fact that he was taking photos (and distributing them publicly, no less!) of his workplace is more then enough grounds for termination. It's all about setting a precedent. I'm sure it's in his employment agreement somewhere. And if I ever distributed photos that I took at work, no matter how seemingly harmless, I'm sure I'd be fired as well.
They are most likely driving to Best Buy just for the card. However, if they are there already looking at TVs or washing machines and see a display of the cards, they might think, "Hey, that would make a nice christmas gift/stocking stuffer" and pick one up.
Except, most albums are sold at a "bulk discount" so that you pay roughly ten bucks regardless of the number of tracks. Assuming the buy album choice was available, it seems that your mistake was to assemble the album from individual tracks.
What gets me are the tracks that cost 99 cents that are only 10 seconds of so or of music, because it is a small intro to a longer song on an album.
Absolutely. I've downloaded AAC files, burned them to CD to play in my car, and ripped the CDs to mp3s to play on winamp at work. Works like a charm. All told, iTunes is a lot more flexible than the microsoft software.
Actually, I believe the real reason is that we no longer have the steel mills and factories capable of creating beams, cables, etc. of the proper size. Same reason we couldn't return to the moon in the same number of years it took the first time round - the industrial infrastructure is just no longer there.
Somewhere I remember hearing that if we wanted to build the Golden Gate Bridge today, we couldn't. So I guess you can add "Bridge building" to the list.
You might also rememember that the faster you go, the narrower the angle of the shock wave. so, the real problem is that the Concord did not go fast enough!
It sure would - I'm on anti-coagulants right now (Coumadin, but was on heparin), and have to endure weekly blood tests as well as daily pills. If I could replace all that with a chip implant, I'd be the first in line to sign up.
I installed it at home and it works fine (better than fine, actually), but at work the installation program hangs. Are there firewall issues in the installation? All I was planning on doing with it at work (really!) was for playing music, so you'd think anyone would at least be able to install it.
But who do I turn in? All the telemarketer calls I get these days are from recordings, so there is no opportunity to question a real human at the other end. I also get a lot of calls that are just silence - presumably, these are telemarketers pinging me to see if there is a real live line, since they are usually followed within a day or two by a flury of telemarketer activity. And yes, I've signed up for both the state and national do not call lists.
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I have had a handful of spims over the years (I always just reject receipt of the message if I don't know the sender) but nothing in at least 6 months.
And as an adendum to my prior post, I also need the landline for TiVo (as others have mentioned) and a security system. Hmmm - my chances of ditching the landline are getting less and less.
They hook the cable box into the phone line (as well as the cable, of course) to download the on-screen channel info and schedules. They probably also use it for pay-per-view and some form of TV spyware, I'm sure. I do know that the signal goes both ways.
I'm getting ready to move, and thought I would ditch the landline and make the switch to a cable modem, since DSL is currently the only thing holding me back (I thought). Then I remembered that my digital cable also requires a phone line. D'ohh! Guess I'm stuck with a home phone I never use.
Troll or not, this brings up a good point - there are certain bands that are in all likelyhood never going to show up on a pay music service like iTunes. Apple records is still battling Apple computer after all these years, so no beatles. Metallica is still a big opponent to online music, so no Metallica - and so on. Bring back the original Napster so I can download like its 1999!
The limit is 10 CDs of the exact same playlist. This is reasonable, considering the only one people who would likely need 10+ of the exact same CDs are true pirates who are trying to sell the disks. Change the song order, add or delete a song from the playlist, and you get anothe 10 CDs to burn.
Chapters will be available nightly at 8:20 ET on the Star Wars online service Hyperspace ($19.95/year; go to www.starwars.com), and on starwars.com and www.cartoonnetwork.com the next day.
The also neglected to mention that it really isnt a billion dollar deal, more of a $200 million dollar deal, since not everyone will redeem their music. Stil a heck of a lot of money, but more plausible.
By todays definition, does this count as a "Weapon of mass destruction" then? As horrible as the damage would been, it seems that phrase is highly overused from the day when it just meant Nukes.
I would have, except that iTunes won't install at work (neither did kazaa, etc, I think they protect us from those sites)
1. Burn a CD
2. Rip the CD into the format of my choosing.
Is a "hurdle" that the author cannot surrmount. He explains the two easy steps right there! Sure, its somewhat of a pain, but the apple format is not really an obstacle to playing the music on other devices than an iPod and making as many copies as you want. I've purchased about 50 songs so far, burned them all to CDs for playing in my car, and ripped them back to mp3s for playing in WinAmp at work.
You misunderstand me. Obviously, Christmas is about Christ and Christianity. However, a holiday at that time of the year was celebrated by "Pagans" (people not believing in God) a very long time ago. From what I understand, early Christians set their Christmas holiday at the same time, even though Jesus was not really born in December.
What are you talking about? Pagans have been around for 1000s of years, and predate all of the modern religions. Where do you think Christmas came from before the whole Christianity thing? Pagan holiday celebrating the shortest day of the year, and the return of the days getting longer.
It doesn't matter what he was taking photos of, the very fact that he was taking photos (and distributing them publicly, no less!) of his workplace is more then enough grounds for termination. It's all about setting a precedent. I'm sure it's in his employment agreement somewhere. And if I ever distributed photos that I took at work, no matter how seemingly harmless, I'm sure I'd be fired as well.
They are most likely driving to Best Buy just for the card. However, if they are there already looking at TVs or washing machines and see a display of the cards, they might think, "Hey, that would make a nice christmas gift/stocking stuffer" and pick one up.
What gets me are the tracks that cost 99 cents that are only 10 seconds of so or of music, because it is a small intro to a longer song on an album.
Absolutely. I've downloaded AAC files, burned them to CD to play in my car, and ripped the CDs to mp3s to play on winamp at work. Works like a charm. All told, iTunes is a lot more flexible than the microsoft software.
Actually, I believe the real reason is that we no longer have the steel mills and factories capable of creating beams, cables, etc. of the proper size. Same reason we couldn't return to the moon in the same number of years it took the first time round - the industrial infrastructure is just no longer there.
Somewhere I remember hearing that if we wanted to build the Golden Gate Bridge today, we couldn't. So I guess you can add "Bridge building" to the list.
You might also rememember that the faster you go, the narrower the angle of the shock wave. so, the real problem is that the Concord did not go fast enough!
It sure would - I'm on anti-coagulants right now (Coumadin, but was on heparin), and have to endure weekly blood tests as well as daily pills. If I could replace all that with a chip implant, I'd be the first in line to sign up.
Yeah, I do. I can access most anything, but services like Kazaa, Morpheous, etc. are blocked so I'm assuming this one is to.
I installed it at home and it works fine (better than fine, actually), but at work the installation program hangs. Are there firewall issues in the installation? All I was planning on doing with it at work (really!) was for playing music, so you'd think anyone would at least be able to install it.
Hey, I still have 8" floppys! Although I must confess I don't use them any more, they make great conversation pieces
But who do I turn in? All the telemarketer calls I get these days are from recordings, so there is no opportunity to question a real human at the other end. I also get a lot of calls that are just silence - presumably, these are telemarketers pinging me to see if there is a real live line, since they are usually followed within a day or two by a flury of telemarketer activity. And yes, I've signed up for both the state and national do not call lists.