ita, do it! Rob got me the hookup, and I have a 12" Powerbook, which is fabulous. Personally, I was afraid it would be too small, but I don't do any video editing or anything, so it works fine for me--I'm more likely to be carrying it through the airport, and glad it weighs and takes up as little space as it does.
Buffy: Dancing with you is way better than trying to hook up with some good-looking guy. Xander: I think I liked it more when you were kicking me in my puffy groin.
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meara - Jan 26, 2005 8:22:57 am PST #1403 of 10003
tommyrot - Jan 26, 2005 10:09:11 am PST #1404 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Apple has already lowered the prices of various build-to-order options for the Mini-Mac. [link] (site is semi-slashdotted at the moment)
Maybe they're responding to criticisms that the various options were overpriced.
bicyclops - Jan 26, 2005 10:56:22 am PST #1405 of 10003
iPod question:
Is there a way to make the iPod play gaplessly? The one I borrowed had an album where the tracks run together seamlessly on the CD, but on the iPod there was a fraction of a second of silence when it changed tracks.
Jesse - Jan 26, 2005 11:24:44 am PST #1406 of 10003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
So, the recent talk in Natter reminded me that I'm really not taking advantage of the technology available to me, so I thought I'd try this torrenting business. Is 10 hours of download time normal for a 1-hour show?
Dana - Jan 26, 2005 11:26:09 am PST #1407 of 10003
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Yes, especially depending on how many people are seeding it.
Edit: Okay, I don't mean normal. I just mean that speeds can vary widely.
DXMachina - Jan 26, 2005 11:27:47 am PST #1408 of 10003
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
It depends upon your connection, your settings, and the number of other people who are torrenting the same file (the more, the better). On the night a show like Lost is released, it usually takes me a couple of hours to download on my cable connection.
Jesse - Jan 26, 2005 11:29:08 am PST #1409 of 10003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
OMG, so fancy -- now it's less than 4 hours to go! Sweet. How fun is this?? I no longer have to remember to set my stupid non-talking-to-my-cable VCR.
tommyrot - Jan 26, 2005 11:30:17 am PST #1410 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I've only torrented a few times, but I remember it started out really slow and gradually sped up....
le nubian - Jan 26, 2005 11:44:24 am PST #1411 of 10003
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Jesse,
be careful now. Someone got a threat to have her ISP pull access if she was caught torrenting again.
Don't torrent movies under any conditions. There are tv shows that are high risk too, but I don't know all of them.
§ ita § - Jan 26, 2005 11:46:01 am PST #1412 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Someone got a threat to have her ISP pull access if she was caught torrenting again.
That'd be me. MGM smacked me for downloading Stargate Atlantis. I don't know if only MGM is on the warpath, or what precisely is their stuff.