June 11th is what I'm hearing:
article about release date rumors:
Mal: Yeah, well, just be careful. We cheated Badger out of good money to buy that frippery, and you're supposed to make me look respectable. Kaylee: Yes, sir, Captain Tightpants.
'Shindig'
Buffistechnology 3: "Press Some Buttons, See What Happens."
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le nubian - May 31, 2007 9:28:37 am PDT #1765 of 25496
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
tommyrot - May 31, 2007 9:41:25 am PDT #1766 of 25496
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
A new street-level zoom feature on Google Maps debuted recently, to much freakout and fanfare... The company performing the drive-by surveillance and image capture services for Google is Immersive Media, and here's a blog post from the PR guy who reps them. What a scary/cool little 11-sided camera that is on the "Street Level View-Mobile."
I love the 11-sided camera. Looks like something Darth Vader would use (but I think a VW Bug would be about the last car Vader would drive).
tommyrot - May 31, 2007 9:50:34 am PDT #1767 of 25496
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
This I did not know....
Apple hides account info in DRM-free music, too
With great power comes great responsibility, and apparently with DRM-free music comes files embedded with identifying information. Such is the situation with Apple's new DRM-free music: songs sold without DRM still have a user's full name and account e-mail embedded in them, which means that dropping that new DRM-free song on your favorite P2P network could come back to bite you.
I'd be skeptical, but EFF confirms this: [link]
Jon B. - May 31, 2007 10:06:14 am PDT #1768 of 25496
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Surely, it's only a matter of hours before someone writes a utility to strip the file of any identifying information?
meara - May 31, 2007 10:13:27 am PDT #1769 of 25496
On a good note on those, heard a story on FlyerTalk about someone using the built-in info in those bought songs to find someone when they left their iPod in the airport (there wasn't any other identifying info, and they hadn't registered it, the person said).
Question: Has anyone used/heard about Helio? One of their phones looks very neat, even if I'm not really the target demographic, but I'm skeptical of their coverage.
Alternately, can anyone recommend a tiny slider-QWERTY other than Verizon's LG EnV? (Which I am planning to look at)
§ ita § - May 31, 2007 12:08:35 pm PDT #1770 of 25496
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I've been burning my DRMed stuff out to CD and then re-importing it. I lose played statistics, but iTunes has tagged the songs correctly otherwise.
NoiseDesign - May 31, 2007 12:16:18 pm PDT #1771 of 25496
Our wings are not tired
The only drawback to that method is that your audio goes through the lossy compression scheme twice and it tends to have an adverse effect on the stereo image on tracks and some of the detail in the audio.
§ ita § - May 31, 2007 12:22:03 pm PDT #1772 of 25496
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
My equipment isn't professional and neither are my ears. They mostly don't notice.
The unDRMed ones are just to move around and live unchecked in my library. I keep the originals.
Strix - May 31, 2007 4:28:07 pm PDT #1773 of 25496
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Ok, crazy stupid question, but I feel slightly ill and rather dumb, so bear with me. Is there any kind of Internet I can get hooked into that doesn't involve a phone? I want a medium-speed DSL thing...do I have to have a land-line to get one?
I'm trying to scope out the cheapest deal in Kansas City, and I keep coming up with ATT, or Time-Warner (who I owe some, er, money) and that's about it. What AM I looking for, and how do I find it?
Fred Pete - May 31, 2007 4:29:58 pm PDT #1774 of 25496
Ann, that's a ferret.
Erin, we use cable modem (through Cox, the local cable company, about whom I have a story or two, but I digress). Cox Net generally works well for us, but I don't know if they do business in Kansas City.