New Apple Lust Objects for 2010 and onward

I like to buy CDs that are in cool packaging and I like the smells of ink and the texture of neat stuff. jewel cases can die in a fire, though

actually I was alluding to the backup of your music collection being corrupted and having to rerip the whole thing again from scratch

― DJP, Monday, March 16, 2015 5:20 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark

I tried accessing some data I burned on DVD-Rs about 10 years ago and like all of it was corrupted

yeah, I've lost swaths of my music collection before and my solution was, irritatingly, to add albums back one at a time as I felt like listening, or go through a half dozen on a weekend at random, because there is no way I am going to add them all at once

really if you need to rerip the whole thing, you want a machine with multiple CD drives anyway

actually I was alluding to the backup of your music collection being corrupted and having to rerip the whole thing again from scratch

― DJP, Monday, March 16, 2015 5:20 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark

I tried accessing some data I burned on DVD-Rs about 10 years ago and like all of it was corrupted

While repro'd optical discs have way better durability than -Rs they're still not really archival. Ideally you'd all be ripping your CDs to tape.

*Prays for a giant EMP to just wipe out all digital data ever*

I only hope I have a pacemaker by that point, save me from living

Had a lovely morning making ringtones. Is there any good reason why iTunes can't just do this with a single button press? I have to import a song and encode it and rename that etc. It's not difficult but an unnecessary pain.

something to do with the legacy of the highly lucrative featurephone ringtone industry I assume

it's almost midnight on a monday and i'm depressed about how my 7.5-year old ipod classic will die soon-ish with no viable replacement.

a thought, if you're feeling crafty:
http://www.reddit.com/r/raspberry_pi/comments/1cvoet/how_would_i_go_about_making_a_portable_mp3_player/

a raspberry pi mp3 player should fit nicely inside of a large briefcase

i mean you could get an ipod touch for about the same cash of course

The X3 looks a bit interesting
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00E9O6C96/ref=pd_aw_sbs_e_1?refRID=0WNAMCPR8VFVXTHNJHB0

really worried apple seems to be transitioning away from optical media :(

they are kind of already out of it, although the software will support it indefinitely due to video use, I think

thank goodness, would hate to see apple transition away from optical media

:)

you're a tricky one, caek

that nytimes fashion piece quoting Mercola (!) on the possible dangers of wearable computing is some next-level horribleness

but I wondered -- what if it's really crazy stealth marketing? you may not want this apple watch because it's for fitness weirdos and health nuts but what if wearable computing was a little dangerous, kind of like cigarettes?

that nytimes fashion piece...is some next-level horribleness

since i am still pretty new to having an iphone i still say dumb shit to siri all the time, it is funny for now

it is a very weird experience though, i feel strangely self-conscious about it

i still use Siri just to set alarms and make appts, feel like there's still a lot of untapped potential there - but it needs to react a lot faster than it does

only use it for those things you mentioned but its worthless for everything else, and def slow yeah

i've just got an iphone 6 after years with a 3gs. mainly i use siri to send unexpectedly cryptic texts to my wife since siri struggles to understand my accent

just upgraded to Yosemite, looking great so far. loving the dark mode.

at this point it's almost morbid curiosity to see how far I can push it, but I have that 2006/2007 Mac Pro I have now using a relatively modern graphics card, with two four core xeons (8 cores total), and in another week or so it'll have Bluetooth 4 and 802.11ac with Handoff! Not bad for a machine the OS doesn't technically support.

I'm still using a mid-2007 iMac with 3gb of RAM. It's still going strong, with the only weakness being that it takes 5 minutes to fully load Spotify

we still have our 2007 white macbook, it is pretty slow so we don't use it for much though. we also have a 2013 13-inch macbook pro that is only nominally faster than the 2007 one tbh

there is no way it is only nominally faster, and if so, something is really wrong

yea it's been a while since I used the 2007 one so i could just be forgetting how slow it really was

I've got a 2011 MBP with 16gb of ram and I recently replaced the optical drive with an SSD and it feels pretty good overall other than the keyboard deciding that the r, h, and a couple of other keys need to be pressed super hard to work. SSD was an incredibly dramatic and noticeable improvement in speed.

my 2008 white macbook has multiple dead keys but I still use it to rip CDs. The keys were because of a spill.

http://i.imgur.com/g2QamZk.jpg

*I destroy every Apple product that I own*

Lee considers himself a trendy guy

Yes wear an expensive watch to work while you serve drinks and food all day, great idea.

Can you set it to display how many seconds you've got left to live? I think a waiter would appreciate that.

hilarious training materials aside, the in-store watch rollout is basically what Angela Ahrendts was hired for, so it'll be interesting to see how it goes.

I mean, interesting to me. And markers.

i wonder if i could custom-order one that could be used as a belt

Hmm, I wonder if anyone's had the idea to put together –

http://i.imgur.com/1pwvkBL.jpg

WELL OF COURSE THEY DID, PROBABLY THE FIRST MEME THAT WAS MADE AFTER THAT ANNOUNCEMENT.

I mean, interesting to me. And markers.

I’m interested too! And I suspect it’ll go poorly. It’s a difficult problem.

* Watches have limited demand.
* Watches steal space from Apple’s profitable Macintosh and iPhone businesses.
* Customers won’t accept fashion advice from Apple employees.
* Existing Apple Store employees won’t upsell.
* …?

I bet John Sculley helped write that training manual.

Meanwhile:

It's also been reported that Trent Reznor is playing a significant role in redesigning the iPhone's music app.

LOL

beats is actually a pretty good service, I keep saying that, maybe somebody will believe me eventually

btw I am Trent Reznor

I've been using it, I never could bring myself to pay for spotify b/c they had two price tiers and I was angry about that

hey Trent, "Sin" rules

Can I make the ticking sound like the "Closer" beat?

I am glad to hear you think so, DJP. It's something I did really early in my career, but I feel we really bring something different to the old material on tour.