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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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tpryan
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response 75 of 81:
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May 16 07:15 UTC 2003 |
re 70: I thought TouchTone and PhoneCenter where amoung the first
uses of an additional CapitalLetter in a word.
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gull
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response 76 of 81:
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May 17 00:20 UTC 2003 |
The term I heard for that, when it was popular during the 80s, was
"intercapping". Some companies that used to have intercapped names have
dropped that feature. MicroSoft, for example. I still tend to use
intercapped names for variables when I'm programming. In programming
books I've seen it referred to as "camel notation", presumably because
the name has a "hump" in the middle.
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pvn
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response 77 of 81:
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May 18 09:01 UTC 2003 |
iCommune was released yesterday. It allows iTunes users to share all
the music they payed a buck each cut for with each other over the
Internet. I guess APPLE is liable for DMCA violation for releasing
OS-X? Thank Bill there wasn't a WinDoze version of iTunes otherwise
shot would have really hit the pan.
http://icommune.sourceforge.net/
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dbratman
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response 78 of 81:
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May 18 23:18 UTC 2003 |
resp:63 - I'm not sure if that Internet auction site does call
itself "eBay". Other people call it that, but its own logo is all
small letters: "ebay".
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oval
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response 79 of 81:
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May 21 15:03 UTC 2003 |
i keep finding links to osX utils etc that allow one to play .ogg files. only
all the links are no longer there. can anyone point me to a link or email me
the component? thanks.
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mcnally
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response 80 of 81:
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Mar 27 01:30 UTC 2004 |
Recently krj was kind enough to send me some iTunes codes that he'd
won in Pepsi's iTunes give-away promotion. Although I've owned an
iPod for almost two years, redeeming the codes was my first experience
with purchasing music from an on-line download service.
All of the descriptions I've heard seem to say that Apple's iTunes
Music Store has the best interface out there and among the biggest
selections. Neither was awful but if this is really the best service
that's available so far the industry still has a long way to go.
The user experience, in particular, could stand some really obvious
improvements (e.g. -- when you're listening to a preview sound clip
it shouldn't stop abruptly if you continue browsing.)
When Ken gave me his iTunes codes I thought "Cool, but this is going
to wind up costing me at least 10 bucks in extra stuff I find and
want to download," but in the end it was a bit of a struggle to find
8 tunes I was eager to download. I was also a bit put out by the
intimidating service agreement and the sign-up process, though I
eventually figured out how to use the free downloads without having
to provide Apple with my credit card number.
All in all it was an enlightening experience and I used the opportunity
to download a bunch of singles off of albums I don't care to invest in.
For that, if for no other purpose, it's nice to have iTunes and similar
services, though I was thwarted by the unavailability of several
selections before I found enough to fill my order.
In the end, though it was more work to find them than I thought it
would be, I wound up with a group of songs I'm pretty sure I'll
enjoy (I'm listening to one of them right now (Jackson Browne's
original version of "These Days", which I've been wanting to hear
ever since I discovered the Golden Palominos' lovely cover version.)
Thanks, Ken!
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mcnally
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response 81 of 81:
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Apr 14 08:02 UTC 2004 |
Chris Goosman was also kind enough to send me an iTunes code from the
Pepsi promotion, too..
If anyone is holding on to codes with the intent of using them eventually,
make sure you do something with them before April 30th, as they'll expire
at that time..
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