1. Wal-Mart Employee is trampled to death. By idiotic, selfish, moronic, asswipe "shoppers" trying to beat everyone else to get that Barbie doll for $5 discount. Too bad that guy won't get to spend Christmas with his family. Those shoppers don't care at all. Did anyone stop to help this guy? No. Not one person did.
2. Two men shoot each other to death following a fight between their girlfriends over another shopping conflict. Gotta have those toys at $5 off. Life be damned.
3. The FDA has approved "minimum levels" of melamine in baby formula. There is NO reason to add this crap into our food items. EVER. It's not like allowances for incidentals like insect parts per unit (read: chocolate). Melamine is not incidental. They're setting human-introduced POISON limits for our babies.
4. Whitney denies reuniting with Bobby. Boy. The news is completely dead this week. Is Whitney Houston "news" anymore? Why? Who f-ing cares?
5. The Fed grants additional "emergency" bail-outs. The first paragraph says "...indicating that a severe credit crisis was still squeezing the financial system". Really? "a"? You mean there's more than one? Bailing out banks is like putting bandaids on someone who had both legs and both arms blown off.
On a less-dumber note:
I realized that my Vizio 42 flat panel has a VGA connector on the back. Hmmm. I had to unplug my AppleTV to connect my Cox HD cable box (I only have one HD cable at the moment). I could just connect one of my computers to the Vizio and play my movies directly from there. I can pull them from my video library (disk) or from iTunes as well. The only thing the AppleTV has over that configuration is having the remote control. Since you cannot practically expand the storage on an AppleTV, which only has 40 GB, and my home server has 500 GB, I'm seeing an epiphany coming. I love how people like to pick on IBM for saying 640KB was all we'd ever need. But Apple has decided 40GB is all we'd ever need also. Seems like 40 years has not taught anyone a thing about storage: It's never enough.
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I guess you missed the part about pairing it with your iTunes...
So for review...
Pairing with iTunes
After you set up your network connection, your TV screen displays a five-digit
passcode, which you’ll need to enter in iTunes to sync or stream content from your
computer to Apple TV.
To set up Apple TV with your iTunes library:
1
Open iTunes on your computer.
2
Select the Apple TV icon with “Click to set up” next to it in the Devices list.
3
Enter the 5-digit passcode from your TV screen.
After you enter your passcode, you can name your Apple TV and set up iTunes to
manage your content.
For more information about iTunes, open iTunes and choose Help > iTunes Help.
Oh BTW that may not work with illegally downloaded movies...
No. I didn't. My AppleTV has been paired with my iTunes "network" since I purchased it. I know you think I'm not as bright as you, but I can read a manual.
If you had an AppleTV, you would know how f-ing slow it is to synchronize content from an internal library. I have a lot of AVI and MPG movies on my server. Waiting for the AppleTV to synch them before playing (it cannot fit them all, so it has to unload and upload quite often) is painfully dull and slow. Plugging the computer directly to the TV allows me to play iTunes content, as well as WMV, AVI/DivX/Xvid (which AppleTV cannot play) immediately and without waiting for an upload. Plus, I can surf the Internet. AppleTV does not expose the full YouTube experience either. It's a filtered view. I don't need the AppleTV anymore. It was nice but a direct PC-to-TV connection is much nicer.
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