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Bonus points: where did jacob complain about using Zune in his home network?

Happy Birthday Lloyd

Yah, I certainly don't do any media consumption. I have a mac mini as an itunes server, feeding 3 appletvs and 2 airport expresses, plus ipads and iphones and ipod touches, many of which get used simultaneously. With 4 kids, we can have as many as 6 different streams going on simultaneously, all without issue. I've got ~700 movies on the server, many thousand albums, ~50 tv series all on the server. Of course, I also have the media for all of those, so I was able to rip them into a format apple supports. When someone else rips what you're watching, I can see how apple might frustrate you when it comes to media consumption. There's a reason I'm an "apple fanboy". I've been working with computers since 1982. I've worked with effectively every platform, both personally and professionally. I admit I haven't used a version of Windows since XP, so it's possible that there have been huge advances since then, but at this point, I'm not going to replace everything I own. I switched because it worked better. From the bsd underpinings to the superior data management, I haven't worked with anything that from a user's perspective works better. All the power of the unix command line and a graphical user interface that actually works logically and consistently. Instead of relying on flat files, iTunes uses a database infrastructure that allows tremendous flexibility for interacting with your media. Sure, you can't just drop files in a filesystem and have them be available, you actually have to load them into the database. Which CAN easily be automated. But further to suggest that Zune is a solution, especially given that even microsoft feels like that was a failed experiment, is ludicrous in the extreme. There may be a lot of different solutions to the media consumption problem, but Zune certainly isn't one of them.

Apple's got the airport express on refurb for $69 today and the 11.6" 1.6ghz 4gb/128gb for $1189

apple juice because it's the one day a year when I can't just go to the grocery store and get apple cider, and everywhere else was OUT.

You're shitting me. You're switching to ZUNE, and complaining about itunes and apple being inefficient and not versatile? Is skin choice the way you judge versatility and cusomizability?

My wife knew Chris Hondros, apparently.

I'd think the syrah/shiraz would see more benefit than the malbecs. Might even hurt the malbecs.

I dont' want them to make mobile me free, I'm paid up for 9 more months

I wasn't suggesting you give up mobile me. Just saying that it doesn't require a pay service to wirelessly sync everything except media.

You can do the other syncs with google or any exchange server. There's not really a need to use mobileme if you don't already have it.

more painting. This time painted the wall behind the tv cream.

water

from my research, you need to go with vnc instead of X11 for android...but iX11 works great if you upgrade to an apple device

given that the ip* is backed up every time it's connected, it doesn't matter which time it's synced, wireless would take forever.

Stillwater Cellar Door

Not if we're talking the ipod touch/iphone/ipad

fresh limeade made with real lime lime juice and turbinado sugar simple syrup.

We're having an alton brown city ham

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sawdust and glue

Wearing my bleu blanc et rouge, watching a hockey game.

absinthe cocktail

Nope, I'm not going to any, can't afford it. Watching all of the caps games, and as many others as I can, tho.

the chicken and dumplings I was cooking earlier