Comments on: Goodbye, iPod Shuffle; it was fun while it lasted

By: wheatdogg

wheatdogg — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 14:14:37 +0000

And, yeah, “kickin’ ass and takin’ names” is an idiom. A very American one, too.

By: wheatdogg

wheatdogg — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 14:13:09 +0000

Darcy:

Try this: http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/13801

It’s a download to fool your Mac into playing different region DVDs and losing count along the way.

I don’t know why VLC won’t play the disk. It’s usually pretty adept at playing everything. What model Mac do you have? I can poke around the toobs for an answer.

Chinese DVD players are all region-free, and can play all sorts of disks, including of course the many many pirated ones sold here dirt cheap. I have the complete oeuvre of Jackie Chan, for instance, most of which is in Cantonese. His US movies are in English. But I got it all for like $4, so I’ll shut up now.

By: Arky

Arky — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 13:13:45 +0000

I am also planning the same, perhaps I should try to turn my smart phone into video ipod. I am tired of carrying to many devices

By: Darcy

Darcy — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 11:51:02 +0000

So I considered getting an iPod or some other musical device, but decided against it. It’s only helpful when I’m traveling, and I don’t travel much. I’m content with my laptop for listening to music (because all the damn radio stations play the same tape every hour (every day), so I can’t listen to it for long) and definitely for watching movies. Except I just bought two French movies (L’Americain, and Michou D’Auber) that my computer will ONLY play if I first change the DVD region to #2…and I can only change the region 4 times total, so ultimately it’s not worth it. When I refuse to change the region, Mac’s DVD Player program automatically ejects the disk. I downloaded VLC player per James’ advice and tried that, but it didn’t even recognize the disc. So basically I don’t think I can watch them on here unless I want to eternally set it up to European and neglect my American ones…and that’d just be stupid. I can at least watch the French ones on Ines’ laptop (like we did last night) or on their DVD player at the country house. Stupid regulations!

Hey, is “kickin’ ass and takin’ names” an idiom? I just used it when talking to Jacob, so I thought it might qualify…since it’s obviously not literal.

By: Goodbye, iPod Shuffle; it was fun while it lasted

Goodbye, iPod Shuffle; it was fun while it lasted — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 07:23:55 +0000

[...] Random Feed wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptJISHOU, HUNAN — I said goodbye to my iPod Shuffle today. I ditched it for a Chinese-made iPod lookalike, the Meizu Media Card. Once my camera batteries are charged, I’ll include a picture. The battery on the real iPod, a first-gen 512 MB Shuffle, became incontinent and just couldn’t seem to hold a charge much longer than a few hours. I’d charg it up at night, and by morning the little fella was flat as a pancake. No lights, no music, nada. So, two freshmen (YangQiu-Harry and GaoXing-Happy) h [...]