30 minutes? You were lucky. Started my download (via business DSL) yesterday 10AM EST - at 5PM less than 25% download completed. Ran overnight. This morning had a "Error Occurred" notice and now the server appears to be down.
Well imamac, can I call you imamac? You see it really isn't a question of whether or not you want your own music, or even whether or not your music will expire.
If you look at our map here what you see is a representation of the United States in various colors. Each of these colors is an area in which, during certain times of the playing period, your music will be available for you to listen to, while in other areas you may have to pay a very slight associate fee to access your tunes.
The first thing we need to do is to identify your home area. Your home area is that are in which you will spend the majority of your time and the area in which your music will always* be available to you. Should you leave your home area, then you are in a 'roaming' area. Music may or may not be available to you while in the 'roaming' area depending upon our agreements with the primary music provider for that area..........
*Please note that always, as used in this explanation of our Terms of Service (TOS) denotes those standard hours during day, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. (subject to change) during which standard play rates which may or may not be covered in your plan are included.
"The system requirements:
Mac OS X:
* 1GHz G4
* 768MB RAM
* Mac OS X 10.4.3
Windows:
* Pentium 4-class CPU
* 768MB RAM
* Windows XP SP2"
I love when reviews quote the software specs then make comparative statements like the one below without indicating the alternative software specs. For the record Apertures specs are:
"# One of the following Macintosh computers: Mac Pro; Power Mac G5 with 1.6GHz or faster PowerPC G5 processor; MacBook Pro; MacBook; 15- or 17-inch PowerBook G4 with 1.25GHz or faster PowerPC G4 processor; Mac mini with Intel Core Solo or Intel Core Duo processor; iMac with 1.8GHz or faster PowerPC G5 or Intel Core Duo processor
# 1GB of RAM (2GB required for Mac Pro)"
Not exactly what I would call bleeding edge top of the line costing arm and a leg machines - especially for the photographer who has already shelled out for a DSLR camera capable of producing twelve to sixteen megapixel images as referenced in the article. Such a camera alone would far exceed the cost I paid for my Nikon DSLR, two Lenses, Studio Lighting (complete with wireless control and wireless light meter), Mac Dual 2.5 G5 and Aperture COMBINED!
"Aperture's main drawback is still performance and as that last joke implies, it was designed for bleeding edge machines."
Funny, my Mac G-5 is not new or bleeding edge. I have Aperture running with over 4,000 images in the current archive and have not had any problems.
I already pay for commercial free television - it's called [insert cable or sat provider here]. So if HBO can provide it, why can't the networks?
If the FCC is going to inject themselves into what is shown on the "over the air" and "free" channels - how then can we as the conumer be expected to pay for avoiding what is free?
Following the success of this, advertisers will be screaming for the State Highway Administrations to put speed bumps, and stop lights everywhere there is a roadsign. Same thing right? Heaven forbid you end up trying to drive on some highway where there are still old Burmashave, Stuckies or South of the Border signs - you'll never get to your destination!
It comes down to this.
There is aboslutely nothing illegal with, and there never will be anything illegal with, the gathering and selling of information about an individual..........until we as the 'consumers' start buying information about our Congressmen and Senators - then and only then will we see a quick and absolute death to such practices.
Well, since DSL still isn't available to a majority of Americans (as is the case here) I wouldn't put too much stock in it as an alternative. And since technology almost appears to be outdated by the time it hits the street, I wouldn't put too much in this new one either.
FTTP however, which is rolling out here ("any time now") might be a worthwhile alternative - especially with all the limitations the cable companies have put in their AUP including: no gaming, no web hosting, no blog hosting, no video feed, no audio feed, no web surfing, no e-mailing and no fun. Ok so the last half of those was an exageration for effect, but I have to ask, what is the point of a multi-meg pipe if not for gaming or hosting? Especially since the re-interpretation of 2257 has shut down most US based pr0n? Once you eliminate that, gaming and hosting your own site, does anyone really need more than a couple K? What else is left?
Lets just roll it all back to dial-up and be done with it!
Back in the day......
Pretty much wherever I deployed while in the Marine Corps (ok, limited deployment arenas) typically there was a Morale & Welfare location where you could place calls back home for free. You were suppose to limit it to 1 call per week (or so) and not more than 5 minutes or so per call. This didn't help the forward deployed units, but typically at the command level they had this capability.
However, people routed this and called much more frequently so I could understand that they may have dumped that beni - I would hate to think that was the case.
The other option was that most military phone circuits allowed morale calls after a given hour (local time, say 6pm) and followed the same restrictions - on your honor only call so many times over a given period and limit calls to so long. You just dial the DSN operator closest to your loved one, identify youself and tell them you want to make a Morale call and boom - there ya go.
If our deployed military don't know about this service then they need to find out. if the service has gone by the wayside then shame on our government!
The real problem here is the misbelief by people about this whole 'separation of church and state'. The first ammendment has been watered down through the years and many people now apparently believe that it means there can be no religion in government and no government in religion. Thus, these silly lawsuits.
What the first ammendment says is:
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
The point here was to prohibit the establishment of a national religion (ie The Church of America), and to prohibit the government from stopping people from practicing their religion.
So if students want to pray before class - it is clearly unconstitutional to pass a law, or for any government official (including school employees) to prohibit them from doing so. As long as the (public) school does not come down and say "All students must now pray to [insert diety here]" - or for that matter "No student may exercise any religion while in school" (see item 1 below) then all bets are off.
Also then, if the school wishes to put a stick on a textbook which states that evolution is one of many theories regarding the origins of life - then they may legally do so.
In fact, one could easily argue that forcing the school district to remove the sticker indeed violates the first ammedment on multiple levels
It supports athiesm - a religion in itself and thus the government is forcing the beliefs of one religious sect on the entire nation, and prohibiting the religious exercise of all non-members of that sect. Thereby establishing a national government sponsored religion in violation of the first ammendment
It violates the free speach rights of the educational institution (however it could further be argued that without authors allowance such a sticker may violate the publishers and authors free speech rights as well) .
I have to agree with other posters, RoadWired! I purchased my RoadWired MegaMedia bag (actually it was a gift from my wife) a couple years ago. I haven't changed bags since. At the time I was working in the Tech Support industry and traveled frequently with loads of support stuff. This bag was the only bag I ever owned that held everything, and was rugged enough to survive both Urban and Desert (Middle East) environments.
Check out the cheesey 1981 flick "Looker" for how evil corporate America utilizes such technology to determine exactly what part of their commercial advertisements you are focusing in on - then craft their evil plans to control your mind through focused imagery. Eventually of course they start killing people who figure out whats going on... I don't want to give it all away - but keep your eye on the butler. Ok, there is no butler - but there is a brief nude scene by Susan Dey.
Apparently there are those who think we have no free will, this made apparent by the recent statement to the effect that the reason we have to stop all this is because we are being bombarded daily by the airwaves and that there isn't any way of keeping them out of our homes. I found that quote interesting (though I don't recall the exact phrasing or which Representative made it) because it made me feel as though I missed out on the "in-brain" and "terminally on" receiver that the guy must have been talking about. Where can I pick one up? It sure would save a lot of time for me if I could get my favorite radio/television station while, say, at the beach.
Stand by for the follow-on hearings in which one Congressman will state "I can't define what violence is - but I know it when I see it."
You lack some knowledge, so let me help you.
1. Check out the Energy Information Administration for information on where oil comes from. For example, in 2002 37% was from our own (thats US DOMESTIC) production, and only 1.4% was from Iraq. Oil from other Arab OPEC states counted for about 12%.
2. Reasons for getting an SUV? Well I own an SUV, it gets better gas mileage than my previous automobile. I did not get $4,000 cash back (I actually put $4,000 down), my interest payments started accruing on day 1, they didn't give a rats about my paystub and in regards to a tax break - are you smoking crack? What tax break? Show me the legislation that allows me to write of the "entire cost" of my SUV as a tax break and I'll - well I can't say what I would do but I refer to you a famous quote by Mr. Orson Wells regarding the English language and a jury.
Did you ever consider their might be a valid reason for purchasing an SUV? No, probably not.
And, what exactly is your experience with foreigners? As someone who has traveled the world and can say that - yes - we Americans have our excesses, but so do other countries. And, yes some people hate us - but not for the reasons you state. And yes, we are a wealthy country, but because we work hard.
None of this will probably make any sense to you, because you have a closed (and obviously) uneducated mind.
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30 minutes? You were lucky. Started my download (via business DSL) yesterday 10AM EST - at 5PM less than 25% download completed. Ran overnight. This morning had a "Error Occurred" notice and now the server appears to be down.
I can see it now .....
Well imamac, can I call you imamac? You see it really isn't a question of whether or not you want your own music, or even whether or not your music will expire.
If you look at our map here what you see is a representation of the United States in various colors. Each of these colors is an area in which, during certain times of the playing period, your music will be available for you to listen to, while in other areas you may have to pay a very slight associate fee to access your tunes.
The first thing we need to do is to identify your home area. Your home area is that are in which you will spend the majority of your time and the area in which your music will always* be available to you. Should you leave your home area, then you are in a 'roaming' area. Music may or may not be available to you while in the 'roaming' area depending upon our agreements with the primary music provider for that area..........
*Please note that always, as used in this explanation of our Terms of Service (TOS) denotes those standard hours during day, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. (subject to change) during which standard play rates which may or may not be covered in your plan are included.
I love when reviews quote the software specs then make comparative statements like the one below without indicating the alternative software specs. For the record Apertures specs are:
"# One of the following Macintosh computers: Mac Pro; Power Mac G5 with 1.6GHz or faster PowerPC G5 processor; MacBook Pro; MacBook; 15- or 17-inch PowerBook G4 with 1.25GHz or faster PowerPC G4 processor; Mac mini with Intel Core Solo or Intel Core Duo processor; iMac with 1.8GHz or faster PowerPC G5 or Intel Core Duo processor # 1GB of RAM (2GB required for Mac Pro)"Not exactly what I would call bleeding edge top of the line costing arm and a leg machines - especially for the photographer who has already shelled out for a DSLR camera capable of producing twelve to sixteen megapixel images as referenced in the article. Such a camera alone would far exceed the cost I paid for my Nikon DSLR, two Lenses, Studio Lighting (complete with wireless control and wireless light meter), Mac Dual 2.5 G5 and Aperture COMBINED!
"Aperture's main drawback is still performance and as that last joke implies, it was designed for bleeding edge machines."Funny, my Mac G-5 is not new or bleeding edge. I have Aperture running with over 4,000 images in the current archive and have not had any problems.
It comes down to this. There is aboslutely nothing illegal with, and there never will be anything illegal with, the gathering and selling of information about an individual..........until we as the 'consumers' start buying information about our Congressmen and Senators - then and only then will we see a quick and absolute death to such practices.
Well, since DSL still isn't available to a majority of Americans (as is the case here) I wouldn't put too much stock in it as an alternative. And since technology almost appears to be outdated by the time it hits the street, I wouldn't put too much in this new one either. FTTP however, which is rolling out here ("any time now") might be a worthwhile alternative - especially with all the limitations the cable companies have put in their AUP including: no gaming, no web hosting, no blog hosting, no video feed, no audio feed, no web surfing, no e-mailing and no fun. Ok so the last half of those was an exageration for effect, but I have to ask, what is the point of a multi-meg pipe if not for gaming or hosting? Especially since the re-interpretation of 2257 has shut down most US based pr0n? Once you eliminate that, gaming and hosting your own site, does anyone really need more than a couple K? What else is left? Lets just roll it all back to dial-up and be done with it!
Sure, we all want more jobs. But once again - in this case - we would probably have to move to another country to get them.
Back in the day...... Pretty much wherever I deployed while in the Marine Corps (ok, limited deployment arenas) typically there was a Morale & Welfare location where you could place calls back home for free. You were suppose to limit it to 1 call per week (or so) and not more than 5 minutes or so per call. This didn't help the forward deployed units, but typically at the command level they had this capability. However, people routed this and called much more frequently so I could understand that they may have dumped that beni - I would hate to think that was the case. The other option was that most military phone circuits allowed morale calls after a given hour (local time, say 6pm) and followed the same restrictions - on your honor only call so many times over a given period and limit calls to so long. You just dial the DSN operator closest to your loved one, identify youself and tell them you want to make a Morale call and boom - there ya go. If our deployed military don't know about this service then they need to find out. if the service has gone by the wayside then shame on our government!
Excellent response - although probably lost on the masses, you may have needed to include a babblefish for them.
The real problem here is the misbelief by people about this whole 'separation of church and state'. The first ammendment has been watered down through the years and many people now apparently believe that it means there can be no religion in government and no government in religion. Thus, these silly lawsuits.
What the first ammendment says is:
The point here was to prohibit the establishment of a national religion (ie The Church of America), and to prohibit the government from stopping people from practicing their religion.
So if students want to pray before class - it is clearly unconstitutional to pass a law, or for any government official (including school employees) to prohibit them from doing so. As long as the (public) school does not come down and say "All students must now pray to [insert diety here]" - or for that matter "No student may exercise any religion while in school" (see item 1 below) then all bets are off.
Also then, if the school wishes to put a stick on a textbook which states that evolution is one of many theories regarding the origins of life - then they may legally do so.
In fact, one could easily argue that forcing the school district to remove the sticker indeed violates the first ammedment on multiple levels
That being said - weapons free, flame away.
I have to agree with other posters, RoadWired! I purchased my RoadWired MegaMedia bag (actually it was a gift from my wife) a couple years ago. I haven't changed bags since. At the time I was working in the Tech Support industry and traveled frequently with loads of support stuff. This bag was the only bag I ever owned that held everything, and was rugged enough to survive both Urban and Desert (Middle East) environments.
Check out the cheesey 1981 flick "Looker" for how evil corporate America utilizes such technology to determine exactly what part of their commercial advertisements you are focusing in on - then craft their evil plans to control your mind through focused imagery. Eventually of course they start killing people who figure out whats going on ... I don't want to give it all away - but keep your eye on the butler. Ok, there is no butler - but there is a brief nude scene by Susan Dey.
I say this about that:
1. Check out the Energy Information Administration for information on where oil comes from. For example, in 2002 37% was from our own (thats US DOMESTIC) production, and only 1.4% was from Iraq. Oil from other Arab OPEC states counted for about 12%.
2. Reasons for getting an SUV? Well I own an SUV, it gets better gas mileage than my previous automobile. I did not get $4,000 cash back (I actually put $4,000 down), my interest payments started accruing on day 1, they didn't give a rats about my paystub and in regards to a tax break - are you smoking crack? What tax break? Show me the legislation that allows me to write of the "entire cost" of my SUV as a tax break and I'll - well I can't say what I would do but I refer to you a famous quote by Mr. Orson Wells regarding the English language and a jury.
Did you ever consider their might be a valid reason for purchasing an SUV? No, probably not.
And, what exactly is your experience with foreigners? As someone who has traveled the world and can say that - yes - we Americans have our excesses, but so do other countries. And, yes some people hate us - but not for the reasons you state. And yes, we are a wealthy country, but because we work hard.
None of this will probably make any sense to you, because you have a closed (and obviously) uneducated mind.