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Bob Dylan Bootleg Series Volumes 1-7. It's not better than all of his work, but it's better than a lot.

QUOTE(greasywheels121 @ Jan 15, 2007 -> 09:16 PM) Nice ad placement on the link. If you're talking about the Wii picture, it's not an ad.

Lucky Louie

QUOTE(U can putitontheboarrrrd...YES @ Jan 11, 2007 -> 03:13 PM) I wouldnt say theres no chance he doesnt have a decent year.. but Juan has never shown anything in previous seasons that proves he's able to stay focused and consistent for an entire season. With the added weight and legal troubles and factor in his regression from last year... it's not looking good for Sosa Jr. .219 12 31 I hope I'm dead wrong. Sosa Jr.? Huh? .255 BA, 19 HR, 68 RBI, .311 OBP.

Paula Abdul drunk in the morning. http://www.break.com/index/paula_abdul_sto...r_retarded.html

The new Bloc Party album is a joke, but Norah Jones new stuff seems to be pretty good.

QUOTE(southsideirish71 @ Jan 11, 2007 -> 10:14 AM) The phone doesnt need this as it is flash based. However one of my geek reverse engineering sites will disassemble this and will have detailed intructions on how to dissemble the new iPhone after they become available. However on the older IPOD this is not that difficult. You dont need to be skilled with a knife. All it takes is a precision screwdriver and to fit in an turn just a bit, then move around the case. It will pop open in a matter of seconds. The case was in 2 pieces before. So it can be opened. It has a backplate, and a front plate. The front plate has the controller board on it where the drive is mounted with a standard IDE connector, and the back plate has a ribbon cable that connects the IPOD interface to the controller board. You just have to be careful when you swing it open as the ribbon cable is delicate. Thanks for the elaborate description. I was making a joke. I've opened my iPods before, and it took quite a bit of shimmy work with a knife. They're easy to get open yes, but only for people that know what to expect and what to do once inside. QUOTE(RockRaines @ Jan 11, 2007 -> 09:33 AM) What exactly needs to be moved etc from one device to the other that a flash card is necessary? Its actually a much less of a technology than what we have here. ALso there is no hard drive once again, so he wont be cracking open any cases. In fact IPODS most likely will never have a moving hard drive again soon. DId you watch the video yet? I'm not saying I'd prefer a flash card because I can move it from device to device (though, potentially that is very nice feature) ... but because I can decide how much space I want to have. Question though, what kind drives do the newest iPods have? Flash drive or HD? And I'll refine my statement all together and say that I just wish the phone had removable storage of some sort.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Jan 1, 2007 -> 09:52 PM) Injuries and payroll sir, injuries and payroll. When you dump a huge portion of your salary into one person, especialy 1 pitcher (when you need 5 starters), if there's an injury, you don't recover from it. This guy is potentially the best pitcher EVER. He's only one starter, yes, but down the stretch he is as automatic as anyone has ever been. The Sox consistently fail down the stretch as any team anywhere. How do you stop that? Get a stopper. Johan Santana is the best you can get. This guy is worth 25 mil/year.

QUOTE(RockRaines @ Jan 10, 2007 -> 09:38 PM) I wasnt being sarcastic at all, maybe you chose to read it that way because you were predjudice? I am actually a very avid PC and Blackberry user. Im not sure what the benefit of a flash card is exactly? The phone, being on a gsm network, will transfer all of your personal info via Sim Card. Im not sure what other use you would need for a flash card? Being that it is also an ipod it can take much larger pieces of data than a flash card could handle and transmit it to any pc via USB. I figure that is even more valuable. You might want to look at this phone with a more open outlook, pegging me as sarcastic and a mac user were two very wrong assumptions and im not sure how I could of come off that way. Oh, and the sidekick is not a smartphone, I was talking about the treo's Q's of the world. The sidekick is a very simplistic device designed for not very tech savvy people like Paris Hilton. Real smartphone users would grow bored with that OS as well as the functionality. SSI-there is no harddrive on this phone, there are no moving parts to fail like he was afraid of. Then I retract my statement and apologize. The reason I'd prefer a flashcard is because it's removeable for idiots, it's upgradeable and as the size on them keeps growing, 4-8 gigs is not far away. There are plenty of features on this phone that look great, but for the price, I'll stick with my cheaper, "stoopid" phone. QUOTE(southsideirish71 @ Jan 10, 2007 -> 08:50 PM) I am a Mac user, and I am also a CCIE. I know the view is that most Mac users are arts/publishing people. Some of us configure routers, switches, and firewalls with them. Some of us actually perform security audits from them. I am a Unix user that happens to like BSD based operating systems. First of all transferring phone information including contacts, numbers and other information has not been an issue even with older phones. Either your vendor will transfer the information, my wife uses sprint and her phone doesn't have a SIM card, and they transfered it for her. Or you can pickup 3rd party software to backup the phone and transfer that information for you. A SIM card is not the only way, in fact we have seen just as many issues with SIM cards where the get damaged, corrupted, and fail. Comparing the Hiptop OS that comes on the Sidekick to even a scaled down version of a BSD like OS like OSX or Windows Mobile is not even close. Items running Linux/Windows Mobile/or OSX are smartphones. Items running simple operating system that port a few java apps ontop of them are not. The SD/CF cards that run on these models of phones might have the capacity from a storage standpoint however they lack the throughput to run an OS/interactive video or support context switching within a full fledged interactive OS. You might see a 4.8 mb/s write speed, however without cache or the proper interface these cards will not be able to support a real OS whether that is Windows Mobile or a scaled down version of OSX. Apple used a mobile hard drive in the original ipods due to size limitations at the time, but also due to throughput. I have tested and have used several smart phones including the Windows Mobile. I have decided that I dont need the bells and whistles of the smartphone group. My biggest gripe is battery life. Especially with WiFi connections, I will be interested on how Apple solves this issue. My current blackberry works great for my purposes. The small keyboard is easy to use and most blackberry users get very proficient in typing with it. I figure that the same will hold for the iPhone. The blackberry is not what I would call a smart phone. It has a base OS that runs some Java Apps ontop of it. It gives me my corporate email which works just fine for my needs. Outside of the video/media the iphone has some real promise. The OSX os can run a ton of open source/optimized apps that run on slower hardware. You can really get your bang for the buck. Where a smartphone like the iPhone or the windows mobile phone will make a splash is when some companies write apps for them. When a sales associate can pull up numbers on their phone with a few clicks instead of having boot your laptop up. I am not talking about a silly spreadsheet also. Some interactive app with some data drilldown capabilities. The Apple IPOD disk failure issue. I get a kick out of this one. As far as the hard drive issues. If you know how to replace an HD in a computer, you can replace the hard drive in an Ipod. I had one hard drive error in my gen 4 Ipod. It took about 2 minutes to pop out the 1.8 inch hard drive, and about 10 minutes to find a 60 dollar replacement on ebay. After reinstalling the software my ipod was good as new. You must be skilled with a knife, as the cases aren't meant to be popped open.

QUOTE(RockRaines @ Jan 10, 2007 -> 06:39 PM) Watch the video to answer most of your questions. First of all, it does NOT run on a HD, it runs on the 2-4-8 gig flash drives that are tried and true on the nanos and minis, which doesnt have the failure that you speak of. Transferring numbers from phone to phone is not really offered on many phones unless you have a sim car in the GSM network. My sprint phone had to always be a manual entry. Because this is cingular, it will have the same features as typical GSM carriers. Also most blackberrys are always backed up to hard drives for the same reasons you mentioned, so its typical for a smart phone to be backed up. So alot of your concerns here do not really apply to this phone, I think you were under the impression it was a gen 1 ipod with a phone taped to the back, which is not true. Im not sure what decisions they are making for you that most smart phones dont already do, but I think you are looking too much at the ipod feature and not enough of the whole package. This is a Treo ( much better though) with an ipod nano built in. Of course it is much more intuitive and adds all the features that people have been clamoring for with bb's and treos. Watch the video, it may enlighten you. BTW, there is no way that your friends dont have close to 4 gigs of music. Most people I know have way over 10, most likely 20+. Most college kids these days push 40+ So you know my friends, eh? If I were to buy a "smart"phone, I'd buy a Sidekick 3. They use flash cards. And I'm sorry that your phone couldn't transfer your data. Do some research next time. Thanks for all the sarcasm, by the way. You sound like a Mac user.

QUOTE(bmags @ Jan 10, 2007 -> 05:06 PM) i. c. bobdylan, we get it, you think that the ipods are inferior...blah blah. I was actually making a valid question. Aside from HD failure, is it going to be easy to transfer all of your information when newer models come out? Most phones have a SIM card or something equal. This makes it easy. Does Apple plan to sync devices with the computer so you can store and transfer information? Do I have to continually back up my phone numbers in case of a crash (something you never have to do with other phones unless you flat out break it)? And other questions, I didn't watch the video, but how does e-mail work? Where's the keyboard? Does it have a touchscreen keyboard? Are the keys small? Does it support pop3? Further questions, the Sidekick, thought I hate it, can use flash cards. With the technology and size progressing like mad on these, why did Apple choose to go with a HD instead of something as small, cheap and compatible as a flash card? They can only hold 2 gigs as of now, yes, but the size will only continue to grow and will allow the consumer to make their own choice. While music collections continue to grow, I'd say a good 99% of my friends aren't anywhere CLOSE to even 4 gigs of music. (EDIT HERE) At least 1/4th of the price of the phone is in the HD. If they make it without a HD, the phone costs something a bit more reasonable. And furthermore, if I can continue to upgrade the size of my phone, I don't 1) have to wait until they make their own model with more space (like they always do) and 2) shell out another $500 when it does come out. If you want to know why I hate Apple, bmags, it's because Apple won't let me make my own decisions.

I wonder if the phone features are hard drive dependent. With all the HD failures the iPod has had, I hope not.

The movie event of the year is called Synecdoche, New York.

QUOTE(Reddy @ Jan 10, 2007 -> 01:30 PM) well the graphics thing is just a matter of opinion - i like the more realistic graphics as opposed to the cartoony ones and thats just the ways it is, but i dont think there was a smaller map - running everywhere would have taken ages, its just that theres a horse in this one instead of a slow as s*** boat. I personally hated the sailing aspect of WW and a "smaller" map that doesnt involve tedious travel is fine by me. otherwise though i agree with the sidequest thing but as for link's expressions - why would you WANT link to have lines? thats the POINT of Zelda games - ya know that Link is YOU. thats the concept at least. He has always been a blank slate in zelda games and i dont know why that would have changed for TP Valid points, and yes, I did think the boat was a bit much. However, the reason I keep saying the map in TP is small because it's all closed off until you reach certain points in the game. Maybe I'm recalling this wrong, as I can only remember for certain in A Link to the Past, but in other games you can see the entire map from the start. You can explore areas and look forward to earning different items. As for Link's expressions, you're right, but the thing I loved about Windwaker is they gave little Link facial expressions.

QUOTE(Reddy @ Jan 9, 2007 -> 10:25 PM) you really thought TP was that bad?? i loved the graphics but i wasnt expecting AMAZING and for me the gameplay was good. it was a bit easy but good nonetheless. For me it's more about story than innovation in the gameplay per se. In that respect i was really happy until the end where it was relatively anti-climactic. that being said it was still my 2nd or 3rd favorite with Oot 1st. i just didnt really dig windwaker at all. and i JUST played it for the first time after doing TP. I didnt like the story at all... i mean who cares about "kid who's not link but... wait... actually sorta kinda is link"s sister... i dunno. I agree though that the graphics got better as the game went on - but i'd still rather have TP graphics than WW any day In my opinion, the game was a digression from Windwaker in every sense. Easier gameplay, worse graphics, less sidequests, smaller map, less (meaningful) items, etc, etc. Even the story is worse just for the sole fact that Link stands there in every scene with a stone face and doesn't have a SINGLE line. You'd think a guy appointed by the gods would have a little more expression, no? It's still a very good game, as all the Zelda games are (except Majora's Mask, I really thought that game was quite bad), but in a series like this, I always expect it to evolve into better things. In the case of Twilight Princess, I had high expectations coming into the new platform and new gaming concept. They didn't deliver on any fronts and gave fans just "another" Zelda game. I expect the next one to harness the Wii capabilities.

QUOTE(Kalapse @ Jan 9, 2007 -> 02:16 PM) Wings What kind of sauce would you like?

QUOTE(Chisoxfn @ Jan 9, 2007 -> 02:24 PM) I'd have to think like most phones, it will eventually be had by pretty much any company (since I can't see Apple wanting to just share the market with a few people). Ahahahahaha.

QUOTE(T R U @ Jan 5, 2007 -> 09:45 PM) I dont see how you could have liked Windwaker and its terrible paper cut out graphics.. I guess I just dont understand how Oot and Majoras Mask arent 1,2 on everyones list.. I think they were easily the best looking and most enjoyable Zelda games.. I had to get an N64 emulator to play them again on my computer because of how much I missed those games.. Are you f***ing serious? And what the hell do graphics matter anyway? GAMEPLAY > graphics Windwaker even has better graphics than Twilight Princess, which, in my opinion, aside from Majora's Mask, is the worst game of the series.

QUOTE(soxwon @ Jan 7, 2007 -> 05:36 PM) Im not sure if this is the forum to post this: When i record mp3's off the internet- they go into my documents and settings- then my shared folder in the c drive i then transfer them to my E drive (external harddrive) Where i store them. Afterwards i transfer them from E drive to my musicmatch jukebox in my c drive. meanwhile allways storing them in E. ok now the problem, when i want to play them thru the Jukebox, alot of them say Broken Link. Why does this happen? Should i start transfering them from my Shared folder directly to the Jukebox? I dont want anymore broken links. Please Help __________________ I don't use Jukebox, but check your settings and make sure Jukebox knows that you are storing all your files in your E drive. Jukebox might be looking for your files in a different folder. Probably whatever they have set as the default. This is a common problem with iTunes.

QUOTE(shipps @ Jan 5, 2007 -> 05:18 AM) Iam particularly in love with Kat Von D FROM Miami Ink and she is covered in tatoos.Also Jeanne Zelasko from MLB Fox coverage,Rachel Ray,Condaleezza Rice, and Steff.......hehehehe. That woman is beyond ugly. I mean, I have to turn the TV station when she comes on.

QUOTE(34FG56MB52JC @ Jan 5, 2007 -> 02:16 PM) There is no question for me that A Link to the Past was the best Zelda game. EVER. The bosses were hard, something OoT and TP can't attest to. Wind Waker had tough bosses compared to previous titles, but the whole ocean thing pissed me off. I hated that concept. As for TP, the bosses are so fricking ridiculously easy once you know how to fight them. Stallord, The Arbiters' Grounds Boss, is the best boss fight out of all the Zelda games I have played. It is easy but the fight is kickass. I haven't come close to beating the game. 30 hours of Gameplay and am only in the Temple of Time. A Link to the Past also had the most temples. I love the sidequests in that game, and OoT is the only game that has had a final boss that can even come close to rivaling the difficulty of Gannon in ALTTP. Even so, OoT's Gannon was a breeze. Windwaker was fantastic, but as you said, the water was terribly annoying, and though the final Gannon had plenty of potential to be HARD, he was easy to beat because all you had to do was strike him a few times. The final battle in the game lasted about 2 minutes. That's not the way it should be.

QUOTE(Buehrle>Wood @ Jan 4, 2007 -> 10:25 PM) Since everyone's doing it: 1. Link's Awakening 2. Majora's Mask 3. Wind Waker 4. Ocarina of Time 5. A Link to the Past Haven't finished TP yet(or come even close, just beat the 3rd temple), but right now I would put it at number 2 even though it's just a bigger OoT. That's probably the most bizarre list I'll ever see. Can you explain why you ranked them as such?

QUOTE(Reddy @ Jan 4, 2007 -> 03:47 PM) do you have the wii version or the gc version? Wii.

QUOTE(RockRaines @ Jan 3, 2007 -> 10:48 AM) Not to come across as racist or anything of the sort, because Iam not, but I was surprised when I learned about it as well considering I didnt really picture a black athlete as an avid hunter. Too many jokes to pick one here...

QUOTE(Reddy @ Jan 4, 2007 -> 03:17 PM) remember the game was meant for the Wii (not initially but in the end) and thats where the different comes in. The gameplay with the Wii is just friggin cool I don't think they harnessed the capabilities of the Wii at all. Considering the concept of the Wii, I'd have expected some monumental changes. Instead, it's the same old s***, now you can just flick your wrist around and point the remote at the screen. I don't find it that cool.