Someone should make earbuds and an iPod mod that monitors your pulse. That way, when your pulse gets to a certain level, your iPod shuts off.
This is useful for listening to music/recorded books at night. Once you fall asleep, the iPod shuts off, saving battery life and frustration of trying to find where you left off at.
Last Monday (August 14th) I got a shiny, new MacBook in the mail. 1.83GHz, 80GB hard drive, and 1GB of RAM.
Quite a few people have asked me, “Was it hard to make the switch, or are Macs pretty easy to use?”
I usually tell them that making the switch was natural. The MacBook (whom I named Staplin) runs like a computer should run.
A computer should be ready to use out-of-the-box.
A computer should boot up in 30 seconds or less.
A computer should be able to be used without you having to worry that it will freeze up, restart, or shut down whenever it feels like it.
A computer should have accessories that plug in via USB 2.0 ports and be ready to use without finding drivers, registering, and restarting.
A computer should allow applications to be installed in under 20 seconds.
A computer should let you see all of the files that are on it without a hassle…it is your computer after all.
A computer should be a logical machine, so it’s only logical that it will keep all of its files organized in a logical manner.
A computer should be able to boot anything you want it to.
A computer should meet all of your standards, and more.
So yeah, I’d suggest that you should get a mac.
Today I went to this Apple store. The sales people were nice and talkative. It was a good retreat from other places in the mall. I feel at home with other nerds. I talked with one sales guy for an hour and I learned a lot about him. One time while he was in California his brother downloaded a movie from a p2p network onto his computer and when he got home there were cops waiting for him at his house. It was going to cost him a $500,000 fine, but he explained to the judge what had happened and the judge let him off with a lot of community service time and a 3-month ban from the internet. He said that sucked because it was right around term paper time.
As he was talking to me I was stealing music from Apple. You know how you can play with computers at all the Apple stores? And you know how they have internet access on those computers? I opened up my Gmail, created a message and attached some music files, saved the message as a draft, then when I got home I downloaded all of the songs. You would think that they would have the music password protected…but they don’t.
An alternative and quicker version of this would be to just take out your ipod and put it on the dock that they have in front of each computer, then transfer the files right over. I wasn’t that bold though. Plus, I wanted the songs on my computer.
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