iPods at the Point!

You folks are all talking about FCP, and I haven't even mastered iMovie (as I don't have a camera to play with).

I got my iPod last night. I went with the regular, 15gb. Now anyone have suggestions for a case? I want something to protect my investment from the shock of going on coasters.

-Sam
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Avalanche Run - My first Roller Coaster.
Magnum XL-200 - The BEST Roller Coaster!

Sam, if you are from the Cleveland area, I think there is an Apple store at Beechwood. Maybe somebody else can back me up on this.

I went and got a case from the Apple store at Easton in Columbus. They have a lot more compared to what they have on the website, plus you can take it out and put it on the iPod and see if you like it.

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Tyler
2001-2004 Park Admissions

Sorry, we go by height...

Tyler,

The Apple Store IS NOT in Beachwood. Excuse the yelling, but I have been over this many times, with many people. I voted for the shopping center where the store is located, which is in Lyndhurst, where I live.

The Apple store is in Lyndhurst, and my problem with it is they didn't hire me. I interviewed with them, but they didn't didn't take me. But I still stood in line on opening day, just like I have done two years in a row at the Point!

I guess I'll try to stop by today, and see what they have. A really good store in the Cleveland area for Apple stuff AND Windows and Linux stuff is Micro Center, in Mayfield Heights. That is where I got the iPod, even though I couldn't get my educational discount there. (I had $50 off at Micro Center, and the educational discount is only $30.)

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Avalanche Run - My first Roller Coaster.
Magnum XL-200 - The BEST Roller Coaster!

Who cares... no one knows that Lyndhurst is there and it's across from Beachwood mall. :) Beachwood it is. :)

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Jeff - Webmaster - GTTP - My Blog
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What time does the water show start?

JEFF, I normally stick up for you when people talk #%^& about you, and the way you run your sites. But this is just WRONG!

The store is in Lyndhurst. Look at where the road was widened, on the Lyndhurst side. If it was up to Beachwood, Legacy Village would not exsist.

Anyway, next time I guess I'll have to think twice before sticking up for you when an enthusiast insults the way you run your sites. ;).

I got the XtremeMac case, at the Apple store. $30, but it is leather, and it looks cool. Plus, the iPod has my Cedar Point playlists, which include music from the stations of MilF!, Wicked Twister, and Top Thrill Dragster.

Now if only they made a Mini RCT game for the iPod...

-Sam
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Avalanche Run - My first Roller Coaster.
Magnum XL-200 - The BEST Roller Coaster!

Dude... relax. I'm messing with you, thus the ":)'s."

But give a west-sider directions and say it's Lyndhurst and they'll be lost. I work in Mayfield and it's still about getting off at Brainard/Cedar in Beachwood.

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Jeff - Webmaster - GTTP - My Blog
Blogs, photo albums - CampusFish
What time does the water show start?

I used the ;) to mean I was joking. Anyway, the only thing I like about the west side is it is closer to the Point! :). But seriously, I understand what you mean. I barely know the west side besides Brooklyn and the Brookpark Road area, the airport, and the way to the Point. I definately know the West side on the way to the Point!

-Sam

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Avalanche Run - My first Roller Coaster.
Magnum XL-200 - The BEST Roller Coaster!
*** This post was edited by Avalanche Sam 3/8/2004 11:46:53 PM ***

So.... we go from the safety of MP3 players on rollercoaster to the OS wars. Personally, I wouldn't recommend subjecting a HD to that kind of abuse. But what the heck, might as well wear out the HD cause your battery is going to be done for in a year and you'll have to throw it away and get a new one. Anyway, I agree with you mac people, Microsoft is crap. Period. Countless security vulnerabilities, the crayola interface, and the fact that they're slowing down their service pack release cycle. Plus, we won't see Longhorn until 2006, at the earliest! Along with longhorn, we'll be getting all kinds of great new features, etc, but Microsoft needs to start focusing on fixing what they have, not constantly adding new features.

Next, you Mac people. The reason OS X is so great because the kernel is Darwin. Darwin is based on FreeBSD components, which are *gasp* open source, like LINUX. I'm a linux fanboy and proud of it. I shudder every time I have to go to school and use an XPee machine. I boot up and log on (takes about a minute and a half on a fast machine), get the "Your system has recovered from a serious error" error, and proceed to click OK a couple of time to get rid of it. Then, I fire up IE, get a trillion pop ups, download Firefox (free open source web browser), and use that to do my business. After that, I go to the start menu (where my logoff button is covered for several seconds by a bubble that says "You have installed new applications"), click Logoff, confirm my decision, then click "End Now" on the various windows components that refuse to shut down. ARRRGHHHH!!! Then, if that isn't bad enough, the next time I want to log on, I don't get my roaming profile because it is conveniently locked by the indexing service!!! (I found this out after googling down an abstract message windows gave me upon logon). The only way to fix this is restart the computer, or stop the indexing service. And don't even get me started on the stupid "Product Activation" or "Error Reporting" microsoft hopes to accomplish something with.

Nuff said!

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What IS the air-speed velocity of an African swallow?

Hold on, Mac fans... don't you realize that by using Mac OS you're promoting Satanism? http://objective.jesussave.us/propaganda.html (About halfway down the page)

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- John
I Snap Flyers

Thanks.. I needed a good laugh.. I love that site.. it makes me realize that the world isn't as bad as it can be... yet...

They're not in power.. hehehe

.. and it's not promoting Satanism, it's promoting Darwinism.. ;)

HUGE difference... trust me.. hehehe

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VertiGo Rides - 82
*** This post was edited by Red Garter Rob 3/10/2004 1:14:04 AM ***

But according to the same site most of the computer elite are mostly "Athiests" and "Pageans." Aren't those one and the same with "Evil Devil Mac Worshipers?" ;)

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- John, whose tounge is firmly in cheek
I Snap Flyers

MF&WTer,

Obviously you don't know much about the iPod or OSX or Windows XP, but we won't get into the last two.

As I researched before, the Hard Drives in both the iPod and the iPod mini have a 2000G+ non-operating shock threshold and a 5G sustained vibration threshold...neither of which you'll find on any ride at Cedar Point. Subesquently, the hard drives won't take the abuse that you claim it will. Secondly, the battery issue has been resolved. One way is with Apple Care. Another is www.ipodbattery.com which will replace the battery in the iPod for cheap. I've had my iPod for a year now and the battery still lasts for 7 hours, so I really don't know what you're talking about. Haven't had the throw it away or anything...amazing isn't it?

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MF&WTer said:
Anyway, I agree with you mac people, Microsoft is crap. Period.

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While their track record circa 2001 was not great, today's MS isn't the same company. You don't know what you're talking about. I make the serious bling because their development products are outstanding. I have Longhorn today, and it's pretty amazing. I've been using XP since beta 2 and never has it crashed or blue screened on me. The server giving you this site (Windows Server 2003) has gone months upon months without a reboot.

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Jeff - Webmaster - GTTP - My Blog
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What time does the water show start?

Thank you Jeff, Microsoft is the better company. By The Way, where would i acquire a copy of longhorn?

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Due To Budget Cuts, The Light At The End Of The Tunnel Has Been Turned Off.
MilleNNium is spelled with two n's people!

You need to be on certain lists or attend certain events. There is no public beta right now.

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Jeff - Webmaster - GTTP - My Blog
Blogs, photo albums - CampusFish
What time does the water show start?

Ok, one at a time. Seth: I wasn't bashing apple or the iPod, I'm just stating a well known fact that they've had battery problems in the past. I would love to have an ipod but I'm still in high school and can't afford apple's outrageous prices. BTW, apple has been known for having closed up systems... ever notice you can't put windows on a mac? Right, cause their hardware is propreitary, but if that produces a stable, standard platform that is for the better of the OS, that's fine.
Jeff: you musn't use Windows to do much if you've never gotten a blue screen. I've gotten about 5 blue screens from Windows XP, which is a HUGE improvement over 9x. You used to get em daily. Also, yea Jeff, microsoft's a great company, that's why they've had the antitrust lawsuits etc and they've currently still got tons of security vulnerabilities in their OS. I've used longhorn, and all I can say is that it's a pig with a stupid installer (I want choices!!). You wouldn't want to use it as a Windows XP replacement as it sits today.
TJohnson: are you talking about MS as the better company between them and apple? Better put on your flame suit. Anyway, if you really feel the need to try out longhorn, better make sure you've got lots of memory (512+) etc, because you'll still be crawling and yelling. You can acquire a copy of longhorn on the edonkey network, this isn't legal though! So don't do it! (lol)

edit: I'm just grumpy because I was at Cedar Point in June for 2 days and didn't get to ride TTD!!! Don't take any of this too seriously. If you want to see some serious MS and apple bashing go to slashdot.org
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What IS the air-speed velocity of an African swallow?
*** This post was edited by MF&WTer 3/14/2004 5:25:27 PM ***

Maybe you have a special install of XP, MF&WTer. I abuse XP on a daily basis (Visual Studio, Photoshop, digital video, personal IIS ... and running several other apps in the background) and I only reboot when I'm doing installations and such. My machine at work has been up for 10 days (last reboot was to complete an install) and I haven't had a blue screen on my desktop system since I had Windows NT 4 workstation.

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Walt Schmidt
Virtual Midway

I find myself rebooting about once a week, on average, but only because some oddball application (the VPN client, X server, or bits of the Cygwin environment) has gone haywire, and rebooting the machine is usually easier than figuring out how to restart the app.

Same here Walt.. I only reboot when I'm doing an install or uninstall.

Funyn thing is.. I've got a machine running 98SE that hasn't needed a reboot that wasn't install/uninstall related in almost 3 years.

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June 11th, 2001 - Gemini 100
VertiGo Rides - 82

I'm running suspiciously simliar software as Brian, and like him, still don't need to reboot that often. XP's "System checkpoint and restore" feature is amazingly useful when working on low-level stuff, too.

--Greg, who's still waiting for his backordered 4MB NuVo2...

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