as a special on Tv last month. My grandmother is a Danish immigrant, born and raised almost all her life here. I would say that my relatives that still live there are quite content, but also very hard-working.
How I wish to visit there before I die and forget how to speak Danish at all! Thanks for writing about this, Philip! (Tak!)
You bring your ingredients to a boil before adding the yeast, in order to kill anything else (wild yeasts, mold, etc.) that might compete with the yeast for sugar without making the ethanol you want.
You bring it to a boil (or not quite to a boil) a second time after the fermenting is over, in order to evaporate the alcohol, which you then condense and capture--that's what a still is designed to do. Once the stuff running out of your still is just water, you're done.
Hi there! I found you through the Vegetarian Carnival. Lots of luck with your apartment gardening - you can do a lot with a relatively small space. I've found the book Bountiful Container by Rose Marie Nichols McGee and Maggie Stuckey to be incredibly helpful with some great ideas.
I lived with a Danish family near Cophenhagen while studying abroad a few years ago. I wouldn't say Danes had "low" expectations as much as they had "realistic" expectations. For example, my 20-year old host sister and her family knew that she was highly intelligent and motivated from an early age, so she was put on the highest track of education in her early teens. My 16-year old host brother, however, knew he did not enjoy academics and planned on following a more vocational track in his early teens. Kids are not told they can "be anything they want," they're taught to learn their own interests and skills from an early age and how to use them to the best of their ability, therefore making them more likely to find fulfilling work.
Another huge factor I noticed in Denmark is the lack of the "Jones'" problem. It was the social norm to be very humble and not "show off", or brag about yourself in public. This was considered highly rude and kind of silly. Almost all houses I saw were small, most Danish families owned one car, if that, and of course they have a wonderful public transportation system. Not everyone I met fit this description, but it seemed to be built into their culture.
Of course Danes still have their problems, the biggest ones that I noticed being immigration issues & racism (party having to do with their high levels of national pride and "smugness" imho), and a high cost of living. But they certainly could teach others, especially Americans, a few things about living higher quality lives overall.
That Steve Jobs link is a hoot! Thanks for the laugh!
You may be right, Will, about the salespeople. When I wrote that, I assumed I could take it back for a full refund, but if there's a restocking fee, then my wrath is upon them.
Matt--yes, exactly. Transferring data between two computers (and the iPod is a computer) can be done with a telephone cable and FTP. So what is the deal with the one not even being able to see the other? (It's not the USB--the iPod does indeed work with USB 1.0.) I think that is very fishy--in a "someone made a bad mistake" way or in a "Apple is being plain nasty" way. I know people have me wearing tin foil hats over the suggestion that Apple would use the iPod software to deliberately block certain uses, but there is a precedent of exactly that. One example, and this is no secret at all, is that the iPhone comes programmed only to work with ATT cell phone networks. However, you can hack the iPhone and it will work nicely with any cell phone provider you want. Another example is that some older models of iPods can be used as high fidelity audio recorders. However, the iPod software only allows you 8 khz (which is not high quality), even though the device is capable of 96 khz. Here's a hack that shows you how to get around this deliberate limitation on the part of Apple: http://www.hackaday.com/2004/12/30/how-to-record-on-your-ipod-for-free/
So I for one am ready to believe that there may be a reason that Apple does not want your older OS to be able to talk to your new iPod, and that they did this very purposefully.
That Steve Jobs link is a hoot! Thanks for the laugh!
You may be right, Will, about the salespeople. When I wrote that, I assumed I could take it back for a full refund, but if there's a restocking fee, then my wrath is upon them.
Matt--yes, exactly. Transferring data between two computers (and the iPod is a computer) can be done with a telephone cable and FTP. So what is the deal with the one not even being able to see the other? (It's not the USB--the iPod does indeed work with USB 1.0.) I think that is very fishy--in a "someone made a bad mistake" way or in a "Apple is being plain nasty" way. I know people have me wearing tin foil hats over the suggestion that Apple would use the iPod software to deliberately block certain uses, but there is a precedent of exactly that. One example, and this is no secret at all, is that the iPhone comes programmed only to work with ATT cell phone networks. However, you can hack the iPhone and it will work nicely with any cell phone provider you want. Another example is that some older models of iPods can be used as high fidelity audio recorders. However, the iPod software only allows you 8 khz (which is not high quality), even though the device is capable of 96 khz. Here's a hack that shows you how to get around this deliberate limitation on the part of Apple: http://www.hackaday.com/2004/12/30/how-to-record-on-your-ipod-for-free/
So I for one am ready to believe that there may be a reason that Apple does not want your older OS to be able to talk to your new iPod, and that they did this very purposefully.
I wish I could move to Dane and build a family there. Not everyone has it easy. In my country, corruption is all over the place. I envy the free college education and the free health care. Where I come from, there is one university where anybody of any economic status can attend. It's not free but it's relatively inexpensive. It's also one of the most prestigious and one that houses the brightest minds as well. If only all schools can have pretty much the same quality.
I also enjoy couponing. Unfortunately ours is limited to one per customer per day so I can't store hop but I have been going once a day for the last few days. I get 25 items and then use my $20 coupon the next day for 25 more items, and the cycle keeps repeating itself. I guess you can say I went overboard and have bought over a hundred items. I am not done yet. They are all usable items thought and the extra I give away since it didn't cost me anything. My neighbors were happy with my extra tomatoes.
In our area some great buys are aquafresh premium, free w 1.50 coupon but counts towards 25 items. T. Marzetti dressing, also free, didn't get a natures way rice because my coupon was expired so I printed one tonight which I will use tomorrow. (I found your story when I was searching for the coupon.) betty crocker frosting, and fruit roll ups for my kids both had additional coupns along w the tomatoes which a had a coupon for $1 off 12. The 1st day I paid $9.84 for a bunch of stuff I can use and the second day I figured out the tomato deal and needed some so I paid 98cents for a tube of toothpaste and 24 cans of tomatoes. (That was like buying one and getting 23 cans and tpaste free.) Today I paid 9.12 for $106 worth of groceries which included $5 for veggies and paper towels that I needed but didn't have a great coupon for. Since some of the 25 items were free the $20 helped with some of my other stuff. It was fun but I am tired now. I only went because I needed veggies and couldn't pass up the free food. And I still have $20 to spend. Have it planned out and will get the things I need including several boxes of fruit roll ups for the kids lunch, dressing, rice, tpaste, hand sanitizer, sauve lotion for $.00and will receive yet another coupon. (I talked to my grandma today and she wants some tomatoes along with my friend. So they will not go to waste. Any extras after this is all over I can donate to a local food drive.)
Wow. I can't believe you folks don't see this for what it is: a blatant attempt to bleed more money out of consumers, or at least a total disregard for those who don't buy everything Apple tells them to buy. How much do you really think is involved in transferring files from a computer, over a usb cable, to a hard drive that plays MP3s? It should be dead simple to make this happen. This isn't a brand new piece of software with high system requirements.
And charging $30 for a wall-charger is just obnoxious.
Say all that you want about how consumers should pay attention and they should just take their money elsewhere if they don't like how a manufacturer takes advantage of them. The fact remains that Apple knows it has a popular (not superior, mind you) product with high brand recognition and that they can charge an extra premium for this. This is a bad thing for consumers and for the public at large.
Of course Apple can charge as much as they want, and no one is forcing consumers to buy their products. But what Apple is doing here is legally ripping off consumers because these consumers face an inequality in information access and knowledge, and are likely to buy based on brand recognition.
ive got a question about fermenting and cooking the stuff well i didnt understand this part where you cook the stuff, so you cook it once,
and after fermenting you cook it again but distilling it in a still to a certain time and degree to let the moonshone condense to turn into alcohol?this my second time making an alcoholic beverage i made some good wine and now this so im atleast 10 percent geneuis on home brewing alcoholic drinks i guess one more thing when its fermenting i think the best way to let carbon dioxide out is to stick a balloon on top with about 20 needle holes in it.n that way nothing can enter it
"We had extensive conversations with the salespeople, in which compatibility never came up, then they unlocked a cabinet, took a box out, and carried it to a cash register. I don't blame them for this."
I think you're being way to generous here. The salespeople are absolutely responsible for giving you the correct information about your product. It doesn't matter if you bought it at the Apple Store or Walmart.
"I think they were under the influence of the Mac "it just works" mind-control field as much as I was."
As a someone who constantly suffers from iTunes crashes (I run Windows XP), I am immune to that field. =)
I agree with you Catherine. Consumer electronics is still way too confusing.
Sony has been doing this for years. I freakin' hate that every Sony device only works with the Sony memory stick, and that the Sony memory stick only works in Sony products. And now... Sony is rewarded yet again for their proprietary technology with the win of Blu-ray over HD-DVD. *sigh* I hate you, Sony!
To be fair, though, Apple has done the best job of making it easy on consumers to use technology. It'll never be completely easy since technology moves so quickly, and we all want the latest, slickest thing available now.
Yes, the speed differences are vast (1.5mb/s vs 60mb/s), but the usb specifications states that all compliant devices must be backwards compatible - "Equipment conforming with any version of the standard will also work with devices designed to any previous specification" (from wiki, also in the specifications if you are very bored: http://www.usb.org/developers/docs/)
If you reach the theoretical max of 1.5mb/s when transfering to your mp3 player it will take about 750 s to transfer 1 gb - or about 12.5 minutes.
So yes, it is slow, but there is no techincal reason for the usb port to be the problem.
You claim that apple is supporting systems that are 8 years old on the PC side and only 3 years old on the Mac but you fail to realize that Vista was just released last year and XP was released in 2001 but was a current OS until vista came out (and actually you can still buy PC's with XP on it because people hate vista so much) For that analogy to be correct you would have to say that apple is supporting the last X number of OS's from MS and compare it to the total number of OS's from Apple. Then we must look at the major differences in the OS's from the respective manufacturer and see if there is a HUGE difference in the code to make the iPod work. If keeping the iPod working under win 98 requires no more coding than all ready done (and MS is well know to not update their code) then it'll be compatible but if there are changes in the code that requires the software on the iPod to be extensively updated to support the different OS then support will be lacking due to the law of diminishing returns. "How many more people will benefit if I put more effort into the development" The greater the effort required with a decreasing benefit is bad business.
Ohabu,
The reason it requires USB 2 over USB 1 is because of the speed in which data is transfered. Try transferring gigs of information over USB 1 and compare it to USB 2. It will take hours for it to transfer over USB 1 while it'll take minutes over USB 2.
apple bites period. I had an ipod that crashed 2 days after the warranty expired (yes - stupid me for not buying extended warranty but it was a gift) and the only thing the apple tech geeks could tell me is it may be electrical. Hey - we'll let you buy a new one for a 10% discount. NO THANKS.....I bought a Zune for 1/2 the price with 4X the memory.
As far as I can see it, there are only one reason why your ipod should not work legitimately. It requires usb 2.0. No real reason for anything to require usb 2.0, but that is the only possible reason.
The thruth is however that Apple products are bad. They have become increasingly bad over the later years. They are no longer the "just works" firm, they are the "pretty colors" firm. Like the iphone - a horrid phone in every way except for the pretty interface and the solid mp3 capabilites. iPods are for some reason bound to itunes, a really slow and annoying piece of software, unless you own a mac.
Leopard suffers from at least as many problems as Vista (did).
If I was to offer some advice: buy a zen. They are solid, small, and they "just work". The day I got my zen I stopped using iPods alltogether. By then I had 3 different ones, but somehow they just sat on my shelf collecting dust from that day.
As far as I can see it, there are only one reason why your ipod should not work legitimately. It requires usb 2.0. No real reason for anything to require usb 2.0, but that is the only possible reason.
The thruth is however that Apple products are bad. They have become increasingly bad over the later years. They are no longer the "just works" firm, they are the "pretty colors" firm. Like the iphone - a horrid phone in every way except for the pretty interface and the solid mp3 capabilites. iPods are for some reason bound to itunes, a really slow and annoying piece of software, unless you own a mac.
Leopard suffers from at least as many problems as Vista (did).
If I was to offer some advice: buy a zen. They are solid, small, and they "just work". The day I got my zen I stopped using iPods alltogether. By then I had 3 different ones, but somehow they just sat on my shelf collecting dust from that day.
Great Idea!!! I also will add, when you are planting the seedlings in the plastic trays. I recommend at night (at the least) or during the day before it germinates (gets leaves) putting the trays above the refridgerator. Above the fridge is a lot warmer area to help the seeds grow faster. If you want have one tray out on your porch from a seed and one tray from the top of the fridge. The fridge one will have about 1 to 2 days head start in germination time.
My parents grow a hobbie garden (1+ acrea a year) and they have plenty of other tidbits besides that one picked up over the years.
I love the idea. I showed my teenage son and he thought it was great, he is ready for one when he goes to college. I do wonder what the actual cost will be, and suspect it might cost more than I would be able to shell out. I also wonder how sturdy the furnature will be. Will it hold up to the day in and day out use it would get?
Actually, I do feel entitled to free upgrades to "minor" OS revisions (These are all OS X). While I complain quite a bit about Microsoft, frankly, I am using a computer shipped in early 2001 and the version of XP is up-to-date. That's exellent service compared to needing to _buy_ a new OS every 2-3 years.
(For the record, I am biased in that I use Linux professionally, and preferrentially. )
Sure it's "smart" in building revenue for shareholders, but I don't want to play that game. I want to have some protection of my investment and not have to play the upgrade game.
This site is about 'living large on a small budget'. In that context, having a 6-year-old computer doesn't seem unreasonable. The iPod works with the 6-year-old XP box (which was a low-performance cheapo when purchased). This machine has USB 1.1 not USB 2.0. However, the iPod does not work with the 6-year old Mac because of the OS-level.
Since an iPod is a USB device (a standardized interface), and the Mac in question can run the latest version of iTunes, I cannot understand what technical issues keep the iPod from being compatible unless there was a non-standard implementation of USB in OS 10.3.x.
Yeah, sure we're stupid for not reading the compatibility statement. That was obvious though. We may be idiots, but we're not alone on this one.
as a special on Tv last month. My grandmother is a Danish immigrant, born and raised almost all her life here. I would say that my relatives that still live there are quite content, but also very hard-working.
How I wish to visit there before I die and forget how to speak Danish at all! Thanks for writing about this, Philip! (Tak!)
You bring your ingredients to a boil before adding the yeast, in order to kill anything else (wild yeasts, mold, etc.) that might compete with the yeast for sugar without making the ethanol you want.
You bring it to a boil (or not quite to a boil) a second time after the fermenting is over, in order to evaporate the alcohol, which you then condense and capture--that's what a still is designed to do. Once the stuff running out of your still is just water, you're done.
Hi there! I found you through the Vegetarian Carnival. Lots of luck with your apartment gardening - you can do a lot with a relatively small space. I've found the book Bountiful Container by Rose Marie Nichols McGee and Maggie Stuckey to be incredibly helpful with some great ideas.
Happy growing,
JLB
I lived with a Danish family near Cophenhagen while studying abroad a few years ago. I wouldn't say Danes had "low" expectations as much as they had "realistic" expectations. For example, my 20-year old host sister and her family knew that she was highly intelligent and motivated from an early age, so she was put on the highest track of education in her early teens. My 16-year old host brother, however, knew he did not enjoy academics and planned on following a more vocational track in his early teens. Kids are not told they can "be anything they want," they're taught to learn their own interests and skills from an early age and how to use them to the best of their ability, therefore making them more likely to find fulfilling work.
Another huge factor I noticed in Denmark is the lack of the "Jones'" problem. It was the social norm to be very humble and not "show off", or brag about yourself in public. This was considered highly rude and kind of silly. Almost all houses I saw were small, most Danish families owned one car, if that, and of course they have a wonderful public transportation system. Not everyone I met fit this description, but it seemed to be built into their culture.
Of course Danes still have their problems, the biggest ones that I noticed being immigration issues & racism (party having to do with their high levels of national pride and "smugness" imho), and a high cost of living. But they certainly could teach others, especially Americans, a few things about living higher quality lives overall.
That Steve Jobs link is a hoot! Thanks for the laugh!
You may be right, Will, about the salespeople. When I wrote that, I assumed I could take it back for a full refund, but if there's a restocking fee, then my wrath is upon them.
Matt--yes, exactly. Transferring data between two computers (and the iPod is a computer) can be done with a telephone cable and FTP. So what is the deal with the one not even being able to see the other? (It's not the USB--the iPod does indeed work with USB 1.0.) I think that is very fishy--in a "someone made a bad mistake" way or in a "Apple is being plain nasty" way. I know people have me wearing tin foil hats over the suggestion that Apple would use the iPod software to deliberately block certain uses, but there is a precedent of exactly that. One example, and this is no secret at all, is that the iPhone comes programmed only to work with ATT cell phone networks. However, you can hack the iPhone and it will work nicely with any cell phone provider you want. Another example is that some older models of iPods can be used as high fidelity audio recorders. However, the iPod software only allows you 8 khz (which is not high quality), even though the device is capable of 96 khz. Here's a hack that shows you how to get around this deliberate limitation on the part of Apple: http://www.hackaday.com/2004/12/30/how-to-record-on-your-ipod-for-free/
So I for one am ready to believe that there may be a reason that Apple does not want your older OS to be able to talk to your new iPod, and that they did this very purposefully.
Catherine Shaffer
Wise Bread Contributor
That Steve Jobs link is a hoot! Thanks for the laugh!
You may be right, Will, about the salespeople. When I wrote that, I assumed I could take it back for a full refund, but if there's a restocking fee, then my wrath is upon them.
Matt--yes, exactly. Transferring data between two computers (and the iPod is a computer) can be done with a telephone cable and FTP. So what is the deal with the one not even being able to see the other? (It's not the USB--the iPod does indeed work with USB 1.0.) I think that is very fishy--in a "someone made a bad mistake" way or in a "Apple is being plain nasty" way. I know people have me wearing tin foil hats over the suggestion that Apple would use the iPod software to deliberately block certain uses, but there is a precedent of exactly that. One example, and this is no secret at all, is that the iPhone comes programmed only to work with ATT cell phone networks. However, you can hack the iPhone and it will work nicely with any cell phone provider you want. Another example is that some older models of iPods can be used as high fidelity audio recorders. However, the iPod software only allows you 8 khz (which is not high quality), even though the device is capable of 96 khz. Here's a hack that shows you how to get around this deliberate limitation on the part of Apple: http://www.hackaday.com/2004/12/30/how-to-record-on-your-ipod-for-free/
So I for one am ready to believe that there may be a reason that Apple does not want your older OS to be able to talk to your new iPod, and that they did this very purposefully.
Catherine Shaffer
Wise Bread Contributor
I wish I could move to Dane and build a family there. Not everyone has it easy. In my country, corruption is all over the place. I envy the free college education and the free health care. Where I come from, there is one university where anybody of any economic status can attend. It's not free but it's relatively inexpensive. It's also one of the most prestigious and one that houses the brightest minds as well. If only all schools can have pretty much the same quality.
I also enjoy couponing. Unfortunately ours is limited to one per customer per day so I can't store hop but I have been going once a day for the last few days. I get 25 items and then use my $20 coupon the next day for 25 more items, and the cycle keeps repeating itself. I guess you can say I went overboard and have bought over a hundred items. I am not done yet. They are all usable items thought and the extra I give away since it didn't cost me anything. My neighbors were happy with my extra tomatoes.
In our area some great buys are aquafresh premium, free w 1.50 coupon but counts towards 25 items. T. Marzetti dressing, also free, didn't get a natures way rice because my coupon was expired so I printed one tonight which I will use tomorrow. (I found your story when I was searching for the coupon.) betty crocker frosting, and fruit roll ups for my kids both had additional coupns along w the tomatoes which a had a coupon for $1 off 12. The 1st day I paid $9.84 for a bunch of stuff I can use and the second day I figured out the tomato deal and needed some so I paid 98cents for a tube of toothpaste and 24 cans of tomatoes. (That was like buying one and getting 23 cans and tpaste free.) Today I paid 9.12 for $106 worth of groceries which included $5 for veggies and paper towels that I needed but didn't have a great coupon for. Since some of the 25 items were free the $20 helped with some of my other stuff. It was fun but I am tired now. I only went because I needed veggies and couldn't pass up the free food. And I still have $20 to spend. Have it planned out and will get the things I need including several boxes of fruit roll ups for the kids lunch, dressing, rice, tpaste, hand sanitizer, sauve lotion for $.00and will receive yet another coupon. (I talked to my grandma today and she wants some tomatoes along with my friend. So they will not go to waste. Any extras after this is all over I can donate to a local food drive.)
Wow. I can't believe you folks don't see this for what it is: a blatant attempt to bleed more money out of consumers, or at least a total disregard for those who don't buy everything Apple tells them to buy. How much do you really think is involved in transferring files from a computer, over a usb cable, to a hard drive that plays MP3s? It should be dead simple to make this happen. This isn't a brand new piece of software with high system requirements.
And charging $30 for a wall-charger is just obnoxious.
Say all that you want about how consumers should pay attention and they should just take their money elsewhere if they don't like how a manufacturer takes advantage of them. The fact remains that Apple knows it has a popular (not superior, mind you) product with high brand recognition and that they can charge an extra premium for this. This is a bad thing for consumers and for the public at large.
Of course Apple can charge as much as they want, and no one is forcing consumers to buy their products. But what Apple is doing here is legally ripping off consumers because these consumers face an inequality in information access and knowledge, and are likely to buy based on brand recognition.
ive got a question about fermenting and cooking the stuff well i didnt understand this part where you cook the stuff, so you cook it once,
and after fermenting you cook it again but distilling it in a still to a certain time and degree to let the moonshone condense to turn into alcohol?this my second time making an alcoholic beverage i made some good wine and now this so im atleast 10 percent geneuis on home brewing alcoholic drinks i guess one more thing when its fermenting i think the best way to let carbon dioxide out is to stick a balloon on top with about 20 needle holes in it.n that way nothing can enter it
Steve Job's response (come on, you knew this was coming).
"We had extensive conversations with the salespeople, in which compatibility never came up, then they unlocked a cabinet, took a box out, and carried it to a cash register. I don't blame them for this."
I think you're being way to generous here. The salespeople are absolutely responsible for giving you the correct information about your product. It doesn't matter if you bought it at the Apple Store or Walmart.
"I think they were under the influence of the Mac "it just works" mind-control field as much as I was."
As a someone who constantly suffers from iTunes crashes (I run Windows XP), I am immune to that field. =)
I agree with you Catherine. Consumer electronics is still way too confusing.
Sony has been doing this for years. I freakin' hate that every Sony device only works with the Sony memory stick, and that the Sony memory stick only works in Sony products. And now... Sony is rewarded yet again for their proprietary technology with the win of Blu-ray over HD-DVD. *sigh* I hate you, Sony!
To be fair, though, Apple has done the best job of making it easy on consumers to use technology. It'll never be completely easy since technology moves so quickly, and we all want the latest, slickest thing available now.
At least Apple isn't as bad as Sony. *shrug*
You should trying running windows on your MAc and then sync the songs through there.
Good to see so many of Ross' Blog Buddies here! Thanks for stopping by!
Yes, the speed differences are vast (1.5mb/s vs 60mb/s), but the usb specifications states that all compliant devices must be backwards compatible - "Equipment conforming with any version of the standard will also work with devices designed to any previous specification" (from wiki, also in the specifications if you are very bored: http://www.usb.org/developers/docs/)
If you reach the theoretical max of 1.5mb/s when transfering to your mp3 player it will take about 750 s to transfer 1 gb - or about 12.5 minutes.
So yes, it is slow, but there is no techincal reason for the usb port to be the problem.
Just load RockBox on it and your problem will be solved...
Catharine,
You claim that apple is supporting systems that are 8 years old on the PC side and only 3 years old on the Mac but you fail to realize that Vista was just released last year and XP was released in 2001 but was a current OS until vista came out (and actually you can still buy PC's with XP on it because people hate vista so much) For that analogy to be correct you would have to say that apple is supporting the last X number of OS's from MS and compare it to the total number of OS's from Apple. Then we must look at the major differences in the OS's from the respective manufacturer and see if there is a HUGE difference in the code to make the iPod work. If keeping the iPod working under win 98 requires no more coding than all ready done (and MS is well know to not update their code) then it'll be compatible but if there are changes in the code that requires the software on the iPod to be extensively updated to support the different OS then support will be lacking due to the law of diminishing returns. "How many more people will benefit if I put more effort into the development" The greater the effort required with a decreasing benefit is bad business.
Ohabu,
The reason it requires USB 2 over USB 1 is because of the speed in which data is transfered. Try transferring gigs of information over USB 1 and compare it to USB 2. It will take hours for it to transfer over USB 1 while it'll take minutes over USB 2.
I found this through the Ross Blog also. Thanks Ross...You rock!
Kathy In Youngstown, Oh
apple bites period. I had an ipod that crashed 2 days after the warranty expired (yes - stupid me for not buying extended warranty but it was a gift) and the only thing the apple tech geeks could tell me is it may be electrical. Hey - we'll let you buy a new one for a 10% discount. NO THANKS.....I bought a Zune for 1/2 the price with 4X the memory.
As far as I can see it, there are only one reason why your ipod should not work legitimately. It requires usb 2.0. No real reason for anything to require usb 2.0, but that is the only possible reason.
The thruth is however that Apple products are bad. They have become increasingly bad over the later years. They are no longer the "just works" firm, they are the "pretty colors" firm. Like the iphone - a horrid phone in every way except for the pretty interface and the solid mp3 capabilites. iPods are for some reason bound to itunes, a really slow and annoying piece of software, unless you own a mac.
Leopard suffers from at least as many problems as Vista (did).
If I was to offer some advice: buy a zen. They are solid, small, and they "just work". The day I got my zen I stopped using iPods alltogether. By then I had 3 different ones, but somehow they just sat on my shelf collecting dust from that day.
As far as I can see it, there are only one reason why your ipod should not work legitimately. It requires usb 2.0. No real reason for anything to require usb 2.0, but that is the only possible reason.
The thruth is however that Apple products are bad. They have become increasingly bad over the later years. They are no longer the "just works" firm, they are the "pretty colors" firm. Like the iphone - a horrid phone in every way except for the pretty interface and the solid mp3 capabilites. iPods are for some reason bound to itunes, a really slow and annoying piece of software, unless you own a mac.
Leopard suffers from at least as many problems as Vista (did).
If I was to offer some advice: buy a zen. They are solid, small, and they "just work". The day I got my zen I stopped using iPods alltogether. By then I had 3 different ones, but somehow they just sat on my shelf collecting dust from that day.
Great Idea!!! I also will add, when you are planting the seedlings in the plastic trays. I recommend at night (at the least) or during the day before it germinates (gets leaves) putting the trays above the refridgerator. Above the fridge is a lot warmer area to help the seeds grow faster. If you want have one tray out on your porch from a seed and one tray from the top of the fridge. The fridge one will have about 1 to 2 days head start in germination time.
My parents grow a hobbie garden (1+ acrea a year) and they have plenty of other tidbits besides that one picked up over the years.
I love the idea. I showed my teenage son and he thought it was great, he is ready for one when he goes to college. I do wonder what the actual cost will be, and suspect it might cost more than I would be able to shell out. I also wonder how sturdy the furnature will be. Will it hold up to the day in and day out use it would get?
Actually, I do feel entitled to free upgrades to "minor" OS revisions (These are all OS X). While I complain quite a bit about Microsoft, frankly, I am using a computer shipped in early 2001 and the version of XP is up-to-date. That's exellent service compared to needing to _buy_ a new OS every 2-3 years.
(For the record, I am biased in that I use Linux professionally, and preferrentially. )
Sure it's "smart" in building revenue for shareholders, but I don't want to play that game. I want to have some protection of my investment and not have to play the upgrade game.
This site is about 'living large on a small budget'. In that context, having a 6-year-old computer doesn't seem unreasonable. The iPod works with the 6-year-old XP box (which was a low-performance cheapo when purchased). This machine has USB 1.1 not USB 2.0. However, the iPod does not work with the 6-year old Mac because of the OS-level.
Since an iPod is a USB device (a standardized interface), and the Mac in question can run the latest version of iTunes, I cannot understand what technical issues keep the iPod from being compatible unless there was a non-standard implementation of USB in OS 10.3.x.
Yeah, sure we're stupid for not reading the compatibility statement. That was obvious though. We may be idiots, but we're not alone on this one.