More competition is a good indicator that the market is worthwhile, though, for some reason, I believed that this would be a DC/Marvel exclusive reader issue farther down the road when digital comics began to pick up more steam (money).

I travel just about every week, and I hate going to the airport, thru those worthless security checks; even today travel from Vancouver, Canada to Houston, I was singled out and every piece of my carry was taken apart and inspect, total BS.

I have traveled thru Israel, Pakistan, Syria, Jordan, Dubai, et I would say the Israel’s have it right,

And Mann is correct, the Muslims will bide their time, 10 years, 20 years, 50 years, they will strike again. I wonder why they have not attacked shopping malls or just run a vehicle with explosives into the the busy airport terminal.

About the only thing the TSA & our beloved Govt. has accomplished has inspired folks to make enough money so they can afford their own private plane.

FK the TSA

I’ll be back later to finish it … thanks!

Robert

Another of the aspects that really makes me made is the fact that in 2008 Obama said that he was opposed to horse slaughter, and at the time he promised to outlaw the export of horses to slaughter (which is what was being done; horses would simply go to Canada and Mexico to be slaughtered there). Every politician breaks campaign promises. But it’s one thing to simply not do something you promised to do; he went from “I’m going to outlaw horse slaughter” to “would you like 20% horse meat or 40% horse meat in your McBurger?” And I’m only partially being glib. The truth is that livestock management is a very serious and complex issue, and there are many legitimate arguments to be made as to legalizing the slaughter of any livestock. But livestock management does not also necessarily include turning them into food. And I’m just left flabbergasted that Obama would allow this to become law. It smells of special interest groups trying to get cheap filler meat at any cost and Obama simply going along with it. I expected more from him.

We actually like the fact that all of our playlists got transferred along with all of our music, even though both Michelle and I have different playlists, because it meant all of them were available on our AppleTV. And there were no freezes or other connectivity issues. I’m guessing that a bunch of the issues you had will get improved over time, but we’ll see.

First off, I have a 35k+ iTunes library, so creating a new, separate Match library was a PITA. Getting songs Matched and uploaded was a PITA – I had to stop it and start it countless times because the process froze. Many of the songs it felt the need to upload were surprising because it uploaded thousands of tracks that I know for a fact are available via the iTunes store. When I turned iTunes Match on on my iPhone, all my old playlists from my standard iTunes library were wiped, along with tracks that I am not really able to upload to the Match server because they’re rough mixes of unreleased records I’ve been woking on recently. Yeah, it warned me it would do that….

iTunes Match should work with your current iTunes library, even if you’re up over 25k non-iTunes store songs. Select the songs you want to match up to 25k – simple, easy, very Apple. I have no idea why they didn’t do that. Turn iTunes Match on on your iOS device, and it should simply make your Matched items available on your device (like your purchased music was previously) rather than wiping your playlists and any music on your device that hasn’t been Matched.

iCloud and iTunes Match make no allowance for families running multiple iOS devices with one Apple ID, like my family does. My Playlists are not my wife’s, and they most certainly aren’t my daughter’s. My Contacts are not my wife’s, and they most certainly aren’t my daughter’s. My Mail is not my wife’s, and it’s certainly not my daughter’s. The thing is, they’re not really technically sophisticated enough to deal with the multiple user IDs and passwords that it would require to have individual iCloud accounts. The Find My device can identify unique iOS and OS X devices. It seems that keeping track of different Contacts, for example, while sharing Calendar/iCal info would be possible under a unified Apple ID if they’re capable of tracking down individual devices.

Anyway, I’m currently very, very, VERY unimpressed, and I’m not at all thrilled that I had to pay $25 to find out that iTunes Match is not anywhere near ready for prime time, much less anywhere near the beta stage. I hope it and iCloud will be in the future, but presently they’re extremely disappointing to me.

The two things I have yet to be able to find hacks for that I don’t think will bother me, but are bothering a friend, are the rubber band scrolling (Not Inertia, but the being able to scroll past visible content and having it bounce back) and the inability to add files and apps to your sidebar in Finder. Oh and being able to order your label colors by their custom names. That went away too apparently. Know any hacks for those?

I really do want to turn iCloud on though and the Match bit is very tempting.