I saw a bear at my friend's camp at night. We were out snowmobiling, and we saw the eyes off to the side of the trail. We grabbed a flashlight and it was a bear! We just kept going...Thankfully there were no cubs that we saw so it didn't chase us.

Something comfortable. Sweats and a t-shirt.

Maye if I'm at home alone, in a robe. A nice, fuzzy robe.

I can kind of understand making you download the entire iPhone OS again for each update, but I hate having to download a 2.5GB file for XCode/iPhone SDK every time the OS gets updated -_-

I see a couple problems with devices other than the iPod/iPhone on iTunes. One of them being support; who does the consumer go to for support if syncing dies (not due to any "forcing out" on anybody's part)? Apple, because they make the software? Or the hardware manufacturer? Both companies would bounce the blame back and forth and the consumer would suffer. (Also, why should Apple pay to support other hardware on a free-to-the-end-user product?)

The second problem is specific to the Pre. Sure, Palm could've played nicely by reading the XML file, but they chose instead to masquerade the Pre as an iPod, first by tricking iTunes into thinking it was an iPod, then by spoofing Apple's USB vendor ID (something that violates Palm's contract with USB-IF twofold; one for not using an ID that they own and also for using an ID that someone has already payed to license).

It's a "legal matter" because Palm is violating their contract with USB-IF that specifically says you CANNOT use a USB vendor ID that you are not licensed to use.

Palm is in the wrong twofold here: they're screwing Apple by using the vendor ID that Apple PAYED to be able to use exclusively AND they're violating their own contract by using a vender ID that they did not pay to have the license to use.

While I agree that it would be nice if the Pre could sync with iTunes (this coming from a happy iPhone 3GS owner), Palm went about it the wrong way; a contract violation is not the right way to get what you want.

And what happens if a Palm Pre suddenly decides to stop working while syncing with iTunes? Who does the user go to for support? Apple says iTunes doesn't support 3rd-party devices and it's Palm's fault, Palm says that your Pre was connected to iTunes and it's Apple's fault.

Apple cannot be held responsible for problems that Palm's lazy hack causes.

And always make a backup before playing with partitions. resizeVolume is supposed to be non-destructive, but backups never hurt anyone. I never had any trouble when I used it, but better save then sorry.

For chowee2 and the Boot Camp question:

If you use the terminal to partition the drive you could actually do it. I have 3 partitions on my MacBook Pro (1 for OSX, 1 for Linux and 1 for XP) and I used the diskutil command to split my original 1 partition into 3 before installing.

The Boot Camp assistant is basically a glorified partitioning tool. You can do everything w/o it.

I did this in the Terminal:
"diskutil list" (without the quotes, to get the disk identifiers)

You have to shrink an HFS+ volume, but someone correct me if I'm wrong. Remember the disk identifier of the partition you're shrinking. Also, decide on sizes now. When you shrink the volume, the sizes must add up (if you start with a 150GB volume, what you shrink to and the new volume you create must add up to 150GB).

Next you use resizeVolume to shrink one partition and create another

Say you had a 150GB partition for OSX, and you wanted to make that 120GB for OSX and 30GB for Windows you would run:
*diskutil resizeVolume diskxxx 120G "MS-DOS FAT32" "Windows XP" 30G*

Remove the asterisks and replace xxx with the disk you're changing (ex disk0s2; this will shrink a 150GB partition to 120GB and create a FAT32 partition sized at 30GB for Windows.

Next just insert the Windows install disc and boot to that, and proceed with setup like normal. Just install to the partition you created for Windows (it should be the only FAT32 partition available; I would recommend doing a quick format to NTFS though).

Side notes: I use rEFIt as a graphical boot manager, and you can get the MacDrive software to access your OSX partitions in Windows.

Hope this helps!

daneel, I have a working setup with MacDrive on my mid-2008 Macbook Pro.

On the OSX side, I RENAMED the iTunes Library file (in the iTunes folder) to "iTunes Library.itl" (remove the quotes). Then, in the Windows side (I'm running XP Pro) I unchecked "Organize the music folder" (since I do most of my work in OSX, I don't need XP messing it up), check "Copy music to iTunes folder", and then set the iTunes path to the OSX drive (accessible via MacDrive). Then I quit iTunes, and re-open while holding Shift (or Alt, I can't remember which key). I browse for an existing library and choose the newly renamed iTunes Library.itl on my Mac partition. Windows reads it and voila! Everything is now accessible in Windows. Any music added in XP will be usable in OSX because it's the same library database. And the only time you might have to redo this is after an iTunes upgrade (the library file might get renamed back to the OSX standard without the extension; add the extension and you should be fine).

Actually, if you're using a Mac you can set the SOCKS proxy under the Network Settings (if you're using a network connection) so all the traffic is routed through there. Did that when I set up a SOCKS proxy through SSH to my desktop at home, worked fine.

Anybody know how the multiplayer disc will work? Will we be able to install maps to the hard drive so they can be used with the original Halo 3 disc, or will the ODST multiplayer disc render the multiplayer portions of the original Halo 3 discs obsolete?