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anderyn
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response 50 of 81:
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May 8 21:08 UTC 2003 |
I have only ever been on one short train trip and I did listen to my cassette
player while on it. Nowadays, I'd take my mini-disc player. (I don't know if
I will ever have an i-Pod, though it sounds cool.)
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tod
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response 51 of 81:
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May 8 21:55 UTC 2003 |
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mcnally
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response 52 of 81:
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May 9 00:32 UTC 2003 |
There are some excellent reasons why you can't always get the same views
from a bicycle that are available from the train. The first is the
distance you ride above the ground on a train -- it makes a big difference.
The second, and more crucial, is that train tracks, especially in the west,
often run through some otherwise pretty inaccessible areas..
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tod
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response 53 of 81:
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May 9 00:33 UTC 2003 |
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mcnally
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response 54 of 81:
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May 9 00:35 UTC 2003 |
True. You can also turn!
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tod
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response 55 of 81:
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May 9 04:24 UTC 2003 |
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sj2
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response 56 of 81:
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May 9 13:00 UTC 2003 |
And long bicycle rides are tough on the boys!! :-))
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gull
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response 57 of 81:
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May 9 13:36 UTC 2003 |
I was told once that the Pennsylvania Turnpike used to be a railroad
right-of-way, and that's why there are so many tunnels. Any truth to
that? I'm a bit skeptical.
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jazz
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response 58 of 81:
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May 9 13:53 UTC 2003 |
I'd venture that it's because the state is in the Appalacians. Occam's
razor.
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krj
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response 59 of 81:
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May 9 17:48 UTC 2003 |
resp:57 is true. The original section of the Pennsylvania Turnpike,
from Irwin to Carlisle across the mountains (roughly from Harrisburg
to Pittsburgh) used the route of a planned Southern Pennsylvania railroad
which was engineered and partly constructed, but never brought to
service. The planned railroad was built to threaten the established
northern Pennsylvania rail route, as part of a war between robber barons
in the Gilded Age of the 1890's, if I remember correctly.
The robber barons reached a financial settlement between themselves
and the southern rail project was abandoned & left fallow until after
World War II, when someone realized it would make a fabulous highway
through difficult terrain.
Source: PA Turnpike literature, hopefully remembered correctly.
I bet there's an official Turnpike website.
Do people listen to their iPods while driving on the Pennsylvania Turnpike?
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jaklumen
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response 60 of 81:
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May 9 22:09 UTC 2003 |
<jaklumen smiles bemusedly as krj tries again and again to return
discussion to the original topic>
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ea
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response 61 of 81:
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May 9 22:32 UTC 2003 |
re #59 - my friends who own iPods carry them everywhere, so I would
assume that if they were on the Pennsylvania Turnpike, they would listen
to their iPods ... (possibly through a cassette adapter plugged into
their car's cassette player, or one of those FM modulators for cars
without a cassette player)
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dbratman
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response 62 of 81:
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May 10 17:09 UTC 2003 |
what's an iPod and why is is sPelled in that pEculiar wAy?
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carson
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response 63 of 81:
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May 10 17:53 UTC 2003 |
(I bet it's spelled that way for the same reason that internet auction site
calls itself eBay.)
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other
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response 64 of 81:
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May 10 18:11 UTC 2003 |
iT's bEcause oF tHe iNfluence tHat mArketing hAs oN tHe wAy wE uSe oUr
lAnguage. dOntcha jUst lOve iT?
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mcnally
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response 65 of 81:
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May 10 21:10 UTC 2003 |
re #62: An iPod is a portable personal music player sold by Apple.
It can store hundreds of albums' worth of songs in MP3 or other computer
music formats all in a package about the size and weight of a deck of
cards that fits easily in your pocket.. ( http://www.apple.com/ipod/ )
If you like music and electronic gadgets it's a fantastic combination of
the two..
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rcurl
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response 66 of 81:
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May 10 22:10 UTC 2003 |
Didn't the i-naming get started with the Apple iMac computer? They've just
gotten carried away. I wonder if they copyrighted "i-".
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mcnally
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response 67 of 81:
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May 10 22:53 UTC 2003 |
Yes, it started with the iMac. Now the linguistically sensitive can iGag
at iMac, iPod, iTunes, iCal, iMovie, iSync, iPhoto, iEtc..
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scott
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response 68 of 81:
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May 10 23:14 UTC 2003 |
...in fact, I'm posting this from my iBook.
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remmers
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response 69 of 81:
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May 11 11:58 UTC 2003 |
If I manufacture a competing music player, can I call it an rPod?
Or would Apple come after me for trademark infringement?
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jazz
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response 70 of 81:
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May 11 14:00 UTC 2003 |
NyQuil started it anyways. "NyQuil, we love you, you giant f*n Q!"
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gull
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response 71 of 81:
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May 12 13:28 UTC 2003 |
Re #59: Huh. Those are some pretty steep grades for a railroad.
Re #67: iLamp (my friend's nickname for the new iMac model)
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jaklumen
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response 72 of 81:
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May 12 20:20 UTC 2003 |
The media still seems to be very optimistic about iTunes, at least
from the last AP release I read. But the one criticism I remember
hearing was that iTunes still lacks the selection of the major P2P
servers (Kazaa, Grokster).
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gull
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response 73 of 81:
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May 13 12:56 UTC 2003 |
That's kind of crippled all the for-pay download services. The record
labels are sort of dipping their toes in, providing only a tiny subset
of their catalogs, when they really need to jump in with both feet.
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dbratman
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response 74 of 81:
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May 14 15:35 UTC 2003 |
Yes: a brick-and-mortar store with only a small selection isn't going
to do well either, unless it's the only game in town.
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