It was also covered a few months ago on PBS in the "How We Got To Now" series, episode "Cold". I'd link to it, but that episode doesn't seem to be currently available.

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It won't happen unless they hire people who have a lot of clue and know how to make such things work. Which is apparently the exact opposite of what they have been doing.

I have a feeling that Trey and Matt are going to do well in the coming week or two. I still haven't seen Team America, and I can't be the only one.

Except that there aren't any "undocumented" Cubans. They just have to reach the beach and are automatically on a fast track to citizenship, with no need for Harry Reid to pander to them. A big reason for the embargo was that Fidel's Cuba basically seized the property of Cuban citizens who escaped to the US, and there are still a lot of expats and their descendants who aren't happy about basically having all their stuff stolen from them.

The undocumented from Mexico and south of there don't care about Cuba.

Once the construction is done, all it takes is a few exploratory drivers with Waze turned on (such as locals going outside the neighborhood), and it will quickly learn that the roads are open again. Have you never had a problem with ants? This is how ants work, only they leave scent trails behind instead of needing an internet connection.

Northwest Austin has a similar problem, though on a much smaller scale. The only two roads that go out from the city are US 183 (a surface highway upgraded to freeway in the past two decades) and Parmer Lane (a 6-lane highway street with traffic lights, though mercifully the worst intersection has good topography for an overpass someday). There are roads that cut across perpendicular to them, but not parallel. (Part of the problem is that development beyond Parmer is blocked by the Robertson Ranch area, which the heirs want to unload slowly for tax reasons, while beyond 183 is too hilly.)

It would be worse if it was a major through-traffic route (like I-35 is), but it's a major rush hour traffic pain as it is.

It's not really amazing if you think of it in the right context: Any music not acquired via RIAA-approved methods must be piracy, according to the RIAA. Ripping CDs is allowed, but only grudgingly, because it was already being done before they knew it could be a "problem". P2P file sharing (aka Napster and its many descendants) is right out.

Also, e-mail? Of all the ways to get music files, that doesn't really seem convienent. Do you watch Netflix movies via e-mail? Just because you could do something doesn't mean it's a great idea. And I've never heard of Windows users sending music via e-mail, so as far as cheap shots go, that's a pretty lame one.

Not to mention that Apple has already switched Macintosh CPU architectures twice, so it's not like they haven't done it before. However, both of those times they bridged the transition with emulation technology to ensure that older applications would still run until "fat" versions appeared. Could they get away without an emulation period this time? Maybe. Having an existing app infrastructure in the new CPU architecture will certainly help.

I've ripped a few songs off of vinyl, and they still sound like vinyl when I play them on my iPod, and I'm not talking about the snap crackle pop. The highs sound too "bright" or something.

I suppose if they were brand new records, played on one of those laser record players, there might be a difference, but that would hardly be a typical vinyl listening environment. Otherwise, it's just a form of distortion that is desirable to some people, like vacuum tube amplifiers. Also, the weakest link is still the human ear. Older ears are going to hear things differently.

That's why I still use my 4GB 1st-gen Nano. (And yes, I know many of them had a problem with their batteries, to the point where Apple just takes them back and gives you a brand new different model.) I don't have to look at it to change tracks while driving.

Well, actually, Google is an ISP, just not a major one. Ever hear of Google Fiber?

The best part is finding really cheap CDs used. Although that will become less convenient in the future now that Apple is taking optical drives out of their computers.

How exactly did you get that missing music onto your old iPod in the first place? I'm sure the newer iOS-based stuff is different, but classic iPods kept the master copy of music on your computer and had no other way to put music on the iPod except via iTunes sync. So you would never actually "move" the music when upgrading, you would just add the new iPod in iTunes and sync with it. Not having used iTunes with two iPods before, I suppose it's possible that you could load a different set of playlists to each one, which would explain your problem.