Ranty McSputterpants (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} wtfwtf_ok) wrote,@ 2007-10-04 12:48:00 |
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Updates
- I am getting a Mac Mini. I'm excited, and will try to use it as my primary email/browser machine and see if I can get to like it for software development.
- My sidekick's network actually seems faster now. Maybe it's just a network upgrade in my area, maybe T-Mobile has a certain bandwidth allocation and there's more for me now that people are jumping ship for iphone. That's unlikely, actually.
- I'm still holding off on an iphone. It needs instant messenging and ssh before I'll be ready, and yes: I know you can get those now if you hack the phone, but I don't want to have to hack anything. Besides, I think I've got 8 months left on my T-Mobile contract.
- Bravo to Amazon and the other legit mp3 stores popping up. I may actually move away from my current music acquisition model, which is to subscribe to rhapsody and strip off the DRM on files I download. Yes, I know: I'm screwing their play count tracking and potentially screwing artists out of revenue, but removing the DRM made everything better: the files are smaller (so more fit on my fauxpod), they start playing faster, and I don't have to synch every 2 weeks to update the licenses. Having the files in mp3 format would be a bigger win, but I still love rhapsody's feature of letting me listen to any song all the way through. I simply don't have the time or skill to listen to 30-second clips and decide if I want an album. Let's say there's a song I like by an artist I never heard of. On most music stores you can listen to a bunch of clips of their other songs and try to figure out if you should get the whole album or just the song. Well, on rhapsody I just download the album, throw it into my 'evaluate' playlist, and can decide at my leisure if it's good or if I want to delete it.
- Zelda for the DS has wonderful controls.
- I am getting a Mac Mini. I'm excited, and will try to use it as my primary email/browser machine and see if I can get to like it for software development.
- My sidekick's network actually seems faster now. Maybe it's just a network upgrade in my area, maybe T-Mobile has a certain bandwidth allocation and there's more for me now that people are jumping ship for iphone. That's unlikely, actually.
- I'm still holding off on an iphone. It needs instant messenging and ssh before I'll be ready, and yes: I know you can get those now if you hack the phone, but I don't want to have to hack anything. Besides, I think I've got 8 months left on my T-Mobile contract.
- Bravo to Amazon and the other legit mp3 stores popping up. I may actually move away from my current music acquisition model, which is to subscribe to rhapsody and strip off the DRM on files I download. Yes, I know: I'm screwing their play count tracking and potentially screwing artists out of revenue, but removing the DRM made everything better: the files are smaller (so more fit on my fauxpod), they start playing faster, and I don't have to synch every 2 weeks to update the licenses. Having the files in mp3 format would be a bigger win, but I still love rhapsody's feature of letting me listen to any song all the way through. I simply don't have the time or skill to listen to 30-second clips and decide if I want an album. Let's say there's a song I like by an artist I never heard of. On most music stores you can listen to a bunch of clips of their other songs and try to figure out if you should get the whole album or just the song. Well, on rhapsody I just download the album, throw it into my 'evaluate' playlist, and can decide at my leisure if it's good or if I want to delete it.
- Zelda for the DS has wonderful controls.
