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Quote: Originally posted by cygsid On the Windows side of things, it seems to me pretty much all the apps I use have had this capability for a long time. Not sure what's the hold-up on the Mac side. Um, like what? Firefox? I don't think I'v…
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Quote: Originally posted by Mac Voyer This is a multi-headed monster. We have been talking as if the music industry is a monolith. It is not. There are artists, producers, scouts and agents, broadcasters, and distributors. Hopefully, I haven?…
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Quote: Originally posted by KingOfSomewhereHot In the US, there are two major services (Sirrius and XM). You have to pay a monthly fee to keep your receiver active. There are also data services available for a fee over the same satellite... for…
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Quote: Originally posted by skatman Not only do I think that is the case, I know from my connections. That is their business model. Art vs. junk is subjective only on the short time scale. On the time scale of several generations of peeps, art …
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Apple (or 'Command' or 'Cmd' however you call it) + left = home Apple + right = end Apple + up = ctrl + home Apple + down = ctrl + end If you are on a text box that has multiple lines and you are on the top line, you can press up to get to th…
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I'm not sure that he will understand all of that. He seems unsure of what an IP address is in relation to a domain name. youcanhaveyourpc: You can register another domain and use that. For example, you have www.mypersonalpage.com registered rig…
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Quote: Originally posted by Mr. H I find this an alarmingly cynical point of view. Do you really think that record-company bosses sit around thinking up ways to ensure that "people as a whole can't tell art from junk" on a conscious level? Anyway…
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A couple other legal grey areas that people really haven't brought up: Out of print CDs How do you feel on the downloading of out-of-print CDs? I personally don't have any problems downloading rips of them. Sure it's technically illegal to do…
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Quote: Originally posted by Aquatic Ok. Yeah. You guys are definitely apologists. Yes. People with different opinions are automatically not on the same level as you because you are so much smarter than everyone else. Quote: I seriously …
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You'll have to be a little bit more descriptive...
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One thing that I haven't heard mentioned here is the purchase of used CDs. Some people in this thread say that they download to 'protest against the RIAA.' But if you buy a used CD, the RIAA gets no money. The person that first purchased it gave …
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If you want to discuss the issue on a purely economical scale, computers + the internet have eliminated scarcity in the music market. I'd argue that it's not quite there for video yet before broadband connections (on average) are faster. Scarcity …
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Quote: Originally posted by groverat You can easily find quality DVD-R & DVD+R that will last 100 years. You just have to pay a little more and get good brands. I'll believe 100 years when I see it. You also have to realize that '100 yea…
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Quote: Originally posted by SoopaDrive UnityGK 1.0 Lite Here's my desktop now. http://web.augsburg.edu/~crocketk/desktop1105.jpg What theme do you use for Firefox? Firefox looks horrible with this OSX in thise theme. I found a UnityGK …
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Quote: Originally posted by kcmac My bad. 2 out of 3 ain't bad though, ehh? Which of those did they buy? I was under the impression that the only purchase in those 3 is the audio technology for GTalk, the rest of the client I don't think …
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Quote: Originally posted by _ alliance _ 17 is just ridiculous for mobile use. My girlfriend's housemate carries around a 17" with her all the time. She doesn't seem to have a problem with it. (She doesn't have a car either; she uses subway/…
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Quote: Originally posted by Messiah The topic of the post was 'XBox 360: Who's getting one?' but (as usual) it's all slid downhill into 'You idiot ? my daddy's tougher than your daddy'. I'd like to think that my posts, at least, haven't come …
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Quote: Originally posted by e1618978 What is sub-d? Is it the same as vga? Anyway, with a mac mini and a Dell 24" LCD monitor, the difference is very large. Yea. When you are switching video inputs, SUB-D is displayed on the screen when …
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Quote: Originally posted by erkanasu when are those 13.3 ibooks coming out? that sounds like a good size. http://www.macworld.com/expo/index.php
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Quote: Originally posted by e1618978 Then how do you explain the *huge* difference in analog and digital video quality wrt computers and computer monitors? Cable interference is not the issue. The issue is D/A conversion in the source unit, a…