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On an only marginally related topic, I’m still looking for a solution as seamless as Logitech’s discontinued Harmony remote. Nothing else has adequately replaced it, even the apps directly from my individual components.
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The GCT store is slamming at all hours, being in one of the busiest rail terminals in the country, and yet I’ve never dealt with a staffer who has been less than friendly and extremely knowledgeable. They also, without exception, will do everything …
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It’s not all of NJ, but several counties still enforce “blue laws” and Bergen County, where the American Dream Mall is, just next to the Giants/Jets MetLife Stadium, is one of those counties. BTW, it took over 20 years to open that Mall.
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ApplePoor said: The Seagate ST-506 5.25" hard drive was 5 megabytes for $1,500. The controller for the Zenith/Heathit computer was also $1,500. Unless you bought the external 10 MB drive. That was $6700, but it came with an 8” floppy drive…
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Remotes in general are a sore spot, let alone dueling interfaces. Logitech’s Harmony worked for a while, especially when they finally included Bluetooth and IR transponders in the same package. But at the same time they took away the ability to modi…
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I'd rather have a larger screen iMac in the pipeline. 27"? 30"? M1+? My late 2013 continues to be quite the workhorse, but come September it will be two iterations of macOS behind.
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I am SO disappointed that Apple doesn't support RS-232 for my Trinitron monitor! AND my SS/SD hard sector 5.25" floppy drive. AND SCSI! Where do I plug in my 250 MB full height hard drive? A perfectly good $1500 gone to waste. At least Apple doesn't…
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In addition to Quark’s arrogance towards their user base (I inadvertently overheard Fred Ibrahim bad mouthing their customers at a MacWorld conference, hubris in all caps), they made a tactical error of astonishing proportion when they didn’t buy Ma…
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Thanks, all, for the nerdiest grins of the day.
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They are innovating in other areas, though. They even have a new voice interface. It's called Iris.
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I'd like to have AirTunes back on my 1stG appleTV. Worked for years, and then suddenly gone. Weirdly, Apple Support folks respond like it never existed. Odd, even considering that today is Emmanuel Goldstein's birthday.
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@protagonistic - the underlaying problem with a flat tax has always been that the cost of running a life or a business has never been flat. The poor (or the first year start ups) pay a much larger percentage of their income for the bare necessities …
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Quite the assumption, said the guy who's paid to upgrade to nearly every major jump since CS 1. Yes, I know you only have to re-up by logging in once a month. As someone who spent the aftermath of Sandy scrambling from generator to generator try…
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Part of the problem with this particular clip is that Ashton is too old to convincingly play 1975-era Steve. He'll work much better as they move into the '80s, but in 1975 Steve was just 20. Most people can't pull off looking 20 when they're 25, Ash…
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If Apple, Verizon, AT&T, et al., registered the phones they sold, and then refused to reactivate them for anyone else if the phone was reported stolen, the value of phones to the thief, iOS or Android, would drop to zero. Oh, wait, they DO regis…
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?the bottom still has room to attach sticky notes, I'm good to go.
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Quote: Originally Posted by kaiser_soze I don't have the Pat Methany that you referred to, but I am very interested in the question of whether 128 kbps AAC avoids artifacts that I can hear. My CD collection is also encoded at that rate. I have en…
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On my iPhone, my music is all 128k AAC. I can sometimes hear the difference, but I'm usually out in an urban setting, with the music turned down enough so I can hear the M23 before it takes me out. At home, my collection is all ALAC. It can't add fi…
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GCT moves many people in many ways, but I think you're off on the daily ridership. Total ridership for all of Metro North was 6.96 million in Sep'11, or around 225,000 a day, if all days were equal. Not all of that ridership goes into GCT. A lot of …
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Quote: Originally Posted by island hermit There's something odd about placing the words parking and spaceship in the same sentence. It would be even odder to double-park a spaceship. Where would you put the ticket? Would it be considered doubl…