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Received my iPhone 4 yesterday. How long did you guys have to suffer the "waiting for activation" message? I'm at the 12 hour mark.

Photoblog - A brush with death Any crash you walk away from...

I suppose at the 1K price point its value depends if you approach it from the storage or DAC side of things. A lot of functionality compared to DAC1, DA10, etc. Course who know how it sounds?

Went with cheddar. A little nervous which way to take "grilled cheese." No explosions yet, though still moving through body.

Polling you gastrophiles. Working from home today. Should I try Krafts new Grilled Cheese Explosion Mac & Cheese or new Cheddar Explosion Mac & Cheese?

See Olive just released a lower priced model today. If the O3HD is like the OH4D (no O3HD page up yet) it will have a digital input too. $1K and DAC duty makes this a bit more interesting. Still seems a bit cumbersome to have another library for other devices (iPod, etc.), but curious if any here have experience with their previous models?

Just walked into an AT&T store to upgrade my iPhone. Much more excited about the 25/3 fiber just scheduled. Lived with .7/.3 for most of the last decade (parts of San Francisco were early to install DSL, late to upgrade). Starting to like the 'burbs.

Also not technically Mac related, but ... Steve Jobs Stopped at Japan Airport Over Ninja Stars - Bloomberg

The Pico DAC/G-Lite is still a nice JH13 combo. Was listening last night to Steve Kuhn's Motility to test a couple DACs (Assemblage 3/Parasound 1600) with the GS-1 and although I previously had some doubts on others comments about the JH13 scaling, those were mostly laid to rest. Even the soundstage on this CD was huge. Kept thinking my GF, who was a few feet away, was making noise that was on the recording. Kinda freaky to be honest.

Damn, JH13s going back again. Really worried about overcompensation again, but left ear sore after an hour or so of usage. No ones got the DIY subtractive equivalent of adding fingernail polish do they? Does fingernail polish work on the acrylic? Just need to smooth it down slightly (additions rougher than original work).

Hell, I had an old Zu Senn cable that I sounded better SE than stock SE and worse balanced (same reterminated) than stock balanced. Others testing thought the same.

As the Duet came up and its headphone out was the best I've ever heard the ER4Ss out of, anyone try the JH13s with it? And 4070 > JH13 > O2!

Have been considering picking up the HD800s again. Almost pulled the trigger last night. Still my favorite full-sized dynamic all-rounders, so I'd ask if you want a phone for everything or one that can excel, but also fail, more often (K1000, AD2000, etc.)?

Here's a hint to those posting on iPads: place a link under your embedded video 'cause we iPad users can't see the embed!

Peace.

I think Clarke referred to an acorn/tree relationship so doubt many would call it based in the traditional sense. Certainly the novel was written expressly with the resulting film in mind. And I hope my negativity didn't imply I thought human creativity was bound to a single medium. I just believe in supporting a mediums strengths. I suspect many who are worried about music videos influence on music or films influence on recent Broadway may feel the same. Nothing wrong with looking outside for inspiration, but may be if the new medium is subservient to the old source.

I had a longer post that Chrome decided to eat, but I agree judging by what film became, silents are but a precursor. We'll never know what cinema could have become if allowed to mature a bit further before another step in realism, and away from visuals and live musical accompaniment, synchronized sound appeared. We talk all the time about the differences between black and white and color films (and actors and themes - maybe even genres by todays standards - that excelled at each) and that migration was minor compared to this jump. What most [narrative] films became may be thought of as natural - visualize lit - and certainly many flicks pointed that way even earlier, but I'm not sure all of even popular cinema had to take that route. I had a film instructor decades ago say there was nothing film had inherently more in common with lit than it did with painting. Often I wonder if gaming will be the same effect on cinema photography had on painting. Anyway, still can't think of another medium so dependent on others. The ease of the statement 'the book is better' as applied to film and not regularly opera or the theater, may point to a corruption in this path. Even the slack we give singers who don't write their own songs rarely gets applied to directors/screenwriters who only adapt (Scorsese?). Not sure why. Certainly, some directors fought to continue to make silents after talkies appeared and I doubt all their cases were based on the inability to transition. In some cases the 'art versus entertainment' line was tossed out (as echoed later in the B/W-color debate). I may be bias in this area as few of my favorite films are based on literature (poetry, novels written for the screenplay or very skeletal based exempted), but the last few years its felt like silents hint towards an alternative language I was previously unaware of. I don't want to get too corny here, but a ton of later films, from 2001 to Elephant, may hint at this also. On the other side of things and on my cynical days, I suspect half of all current films don't even have to be watched. Just multitask while listening.

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Haven't seen The Last Laugh, but I'd put Sunrise and City Girl above Nosferatu or Faust. Sorry didn't mean to imply this collection demonstrated his standing in my eyes, but to majority of the world who equate silents to Chaplin/Keaton, thought even lesser Murnau was an important exploration. And the Murnau, Borzage and Fox box set is still $200. The older I get, and the less I want cinema to be simply visual literature, the more I wish talkies had held off another decade to allow silents to explore more before disappearing. The language was still being formed. Anyway, I put my money where my mouth is. Murnau, Lubitsch and the Gaumont Treasures box sets purchased.

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Wait, you had time to read in basic training?

Dinny, if your workplace uses Outlook for email there's a nice Outlook/Google Calender sync tool out there. Then bookmark Google Calender. Due to security policies I've never been able to sync email, but at least now I know when to roll out of bed.

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When/if I upgrade from the 3G, I doubt audio will be the determining factor of size (iPads taken over a lot of the iPhones chores and with the iPads digital out the iPhone been regulated to mostly streaming WFMU, UBU, TAL, NPR, etc.), but video shooting may be. Those with 4s (or even 3Gs), do you find yourself shooting much and if so how much space are you consuming regularly?