What I was surprised to learn recently is that Thunderbolt is PCIe and DisplayPort combined over a single cable. This means you should be able to cheaply make adapters for anything that is supported by PCIe cards, like FireWire.
Everybody plays each other. That's all anybody ever does. We play parts.
Saffron ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
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Rob - Jul 21, 2011 12:41:40 pm PDT #17244 of 25501
Liese S. - Jul 21, 2011 12:42:17 pm PDT #17245 of 25501
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Huh, that is interesting, Rob.
Tom Scola - Jul 21, 2011 12:53:11 pm PDT #17246 of 25501
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Yeah, the new Thunderbolt monitors from Apple just have a Thunderbolt connection between the Mac and the monitor, but it has USB, Firewire, and ethernet ports coming out of the monitor.
Tom Scola - Jul 21, 2011 3:11:10 pm PDT #17247 of 25501
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
amych - Jul 21, 2011 3:26:21 pm PDT #17248 of 25501
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Rob's news makes Thunderbolt much more interesting all of a sudden (as I was assuming it was another case of "hey, nifty tech that there won't be enough variety to support!")
sumi - Jul 21, 2011 6:52:03 pm PDT #17249 of 25501
Art Crawl!!!
If I ask my newly installed itunes to sync music from my phone will it erase all the music on my phone or will it transfer the music to my computer?
tommyrot - Jul 21, 2011 7:07:39 pm PDT #17250 of 25501
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
It will offer to transfer all songs you bought from the iTunes store, but I think it'll erase everything else.
omnis_audis - Jul 22, 2011 12:30:25 am PDT #17251 of 25501
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
Rumors that Apple is considering buying Hulu
A few weeks back I heard news story that Hulu owners had to divest their interest in Hulu, as they were creating competition to their customers (i.e. Cable companies)
As for the apple buying it? Seems to make sense. If the company has long term licenses to content from 3 networks, and subscribers on TiVo and XboxLive, and who knows what else... Seems like an easy way to expand their media distribution empire, and bypass some of the cold shoulders they are getting.
No clue how true it is.
Jesse - Jul 22, 2011 5:21:39 am PDT #17252 of 25501
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Does anyone have any secret tricks to get iTunes to authorize my new computer? I've googled and done all of the things they suggested -- reinstalled iTunes, turned off account controls, deleted some secret file I don't remember what it was, etc. It still keeps telling me first that the computer's not authorized and then that it is.
le nubian - Jul 22, 2011 5:25:58 am PDT #17253 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
do you have it authorized on more than 5 computers?
can you deauth one computer and try it on that one?