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They quashed the competition by building a superior product, that people were willing to pay for. What everyone's forgetting is just how revolutionary the idea of digital music was, and how concerned labels were about copyright infringement..... That superior product just happened to live in a closed ecosystem -- something that a lot of Apple fans were and are still happy about. I'm not blindly an Apple fanboy -- though I've switched over totally from PC land at the moment. I'd go back if the options were truly better for my needs, but at the moment Apple meets my needs seamlessly..... Actually, I was a big Apple fan. I used their computers at work even though I had to buy them myself. And I agree the Ipod was revolutionary, it was a great product. That's what really ticks me off. They didn't need to screw over their customers by selling them locked music files in a proprietary format that only works on an Ipod. I bought their stinking Ipod, they got my money, the point is that the proprietary format didn't let me play the music on my home stereo or in my car so the files are essentially worthless..... in this state it's actually illegal to drive with ear buds in listening to an Ipod and the auto stereos with "aux inputs" didn't even exist for several more years. So the music in their format was unduly restrictive and useless to me. You pay for a product you can't use except in one system that doesn't meet your usage. That's crap. You pay for the music content, not the format. Apple's whining about "music piracy" and all that other crap is a smokescreen. Bottom line is they wanted to crush the competition by making sure nothing was compatible. Nobody else can play on the same field. And they did. And they got away with it. This isn't really complicated.

Might want to consider a couple of things, since this gun will be used to defend your life: 1) The cycling reliability of the 1911 is inversely proportional to barrel length. My 5" 1911's have fired so many rounds without a hangup I could not even estimate. But (in general) shorter 1911's do not cycle as well. Even very good ones like STI have this effect, although you can get them to work well if tuned up right. 2) Short barrels do not give enough velocity for many of th "defense rounds" to attain sufficient velocity to get the hollow point heads to expand which significantly reduces stopping power. There was a robbery attempt at our range some year back and a store worker (who packed a compact 1911) put two .45's in the guys chest and neither wound was fatal becaue neither bullet expanded. They were both through and through and the guy ran away and got a block before dropping. He lived. I love 1911' and in fact shoot one every week, but I would not choose a compact version as a defense gun. YMMV

Speaking as a man who has been married 33 years...... trying to use common sense or logic in a relationship with a woman is like trying to teach a goldfish to play the violin. Just go with the flow....... or more accurately, stay away from the house around the time of the flow. Anyway, good luck.

That answers the question what happened to the wal mart music service..... RIP.

Anybody else remember the wal mart MP3 music service? That's what threatened Itunes. I don't even know if it still exists. Kind of like looking at an ad for a Betamax recorder.

OK. But that became available a LOOOONG time after I bought the tunes and "fixed" them myself by offloading then ripping back onto my hard drive. Web shows Apple changed from "protected file format" in April 2009. Don't need to duplicate the files I already recreated in WAV , just wish they had given them to me in the first place. So basically, Apple started doing the right thing about six years after they started ITunes. But by then, they had pretty much squashed the competing music services.

Yep: I guess that's why companies indulge in shady and nefarious practices in business...... they get away with it and it makes them very rich. My main gripe was never so much WHAT they did but the fact they did not tell buyers about it until they had you. In the overall picture, Apple was forced to stop selling "incompatible locked" format. The only people who really got screwed are people who bought music early (like me) as Apple never offered to replace the locked tunes with open ones. Whatever. I don't buy from them anymore.

This manual is the definitive reference for SW revos. It has a clear explanation of fitting the DA sear. If APEX says it must be fitted, it is probably doable. http://bestpriceprobe.com/products/the-s-w-revolver-a-shop-manual-s-w-revolver-manual.html

If you mean the lower edge of the DA sear (the black piece that is spring loaded on the front of the hammer). Yes, that is a critical fit. The DA sear has to be fitted precisely so that the trigger pull is smooth and there is a perfect handoff between the two parts of the trigger that rotate the hammer. It looks to me like the end of the sear has been left long to allow for fitting? I have never bought one of these hammers but it doesn't look like a drop in fit.

That's exactly why it happened. Your spine mis aligned in such a way that it put pressure on a nerve. I have the same thing except mine kills both arms and hands when it happens. It is temporary but freaky.

My 1911 Trojan has fired so many thousands of rounds without any failure I don't even know the count. With good ammo and a decent extractor, you will not see any FTE.

You might try dropping the rounds into the barrel and see if they drop in properly (you can hear the THUNK sound) or if you find some that are too tight to drop and seat. If you have some tight rounds, they will slip the extractor. Some barrels are tighter than others, usually the best match grade barrels are the ones that are tight and the "service grade" barrels are looser so they would do it less often.

Another problem peculiar to 9mm: if it is reload ammo, many times the brass is not sized correctly because the case has a specific taper. It will get a cork effect and be hard to extract. I had to do the "test drop" of each round in the barrel to sort the stuff that would not go in mine.

Make sure you actually have a 9mm extractor and not a .40/.45 extractor. Make sure the hook is sharp and square and measure the tension using a Weigand gauge. I run mine between 15 - 20 ounces. I also have a 9mm 1911 (Trojan). I don't run Aftec. A good standard extractor will work if properly set up and ammo is good.

I have arthritis in the base of the thumb joint. I put some padding on the grip safety area using "mole skin" type of stuff that is a padded stick on layer used for feet. Works pretty well.

Yeah, isn't that a surprise: the guy with the most $$$$ will end up winning in court. That hardly ever happens..... Bottom line, it's a symbolic victory for those of us who got screwed. And maybe a legal precedent that will reign in how far other companies will go in the future to kill competition.

Here is what I found: ???????????????????????? So, because it was paid on a commercial credit card, that let's Apple off the hook? I guess it's lucky I am not a lawyer.... Or because the story changed 27 times...... ....or because that makes it smell a little -- as in the appearance that the law firm bought the devices to create standing for them to sue..... The facts of the overall story never changed. I know because I was part of "the story". Apple used deceit to rip people off by selling a product they couldn't use unless they ponied up $300 for an Ipod and they didn't disclose it. I am not absolutely sure if it's illegal but it is certainly a scummy way to do business. To this day, Apple has not made any correction to "free up" the original locked files it sold me that only work on Ipod. Don't know how I could have laid it out any clearer. Apple sold itself as a music service and then sold music files that could only be transferred to an Ipod. As somebody said: how happy would you be if you bought a bunch of video disks and tried to play them and got nothing but error messages and then found out they only worked if you bought a $300 DVD player from the same place selling you the disks. You would not be happy.

Here is what I found: ???????????????????????? So, because it was paid on a commercial credit card, that let's Apple off the hook? I guess it's lucky I am not a lawyer....

Maybe. let's hope the bundle they had to spend on lawyer's fees will be enough of an attitude adjustment. Kind of ironic that people like me who didn't do the Napster piracy method of stealing tunes en masse back then (and actually joined a legal music service) ended up buying tracks that could only be transferred to an Ipod which cost like $400 back then...... and even then you could only play the tracks on the Ipod, no other devices. Whole thing gets filed in the "no good deed goes unpunished" folder.

My employer made the choice really easy for me..... they just laid me off when I was 53. I have no idea what gun related industry could make a living. With the cost and shortages on ammo, most of the ranges around here are starving and have laid off most staff. I doubt most people could make a living doing gunsmithing, there isn't enough work.

Apple took DRM off their music years ago. That is of no value to me or the other people who bought the original files. As I posted above, all the files I bought are still unable to convert even in the current version of ITunes so they did not fix anything for the people who bought the original music format. Those files are still locked and in a "proprietary" format. If Apple had actually fixed it, let them upgrade Itunes so that it will detect the "locked" apple files and let the user change them to MP3 which is what they should have been in the first place. It doesn't matter to me because I already went through all the time and trouble to burn them to disks and re import them to my HD and convert them to MP3 using my own software. But that's not what I paid for and I shouldn't have to go through that hassle. And as I said, for the people duped by the original Apple format, they haven't fixed anything.

Apple took DRM off their music years ago. I got an iPod in 2005, and loaded dozens and dozens of classical CD's into iTunes and synced to the iPod. NO problems whatsoever. Then iTunes match came along which I ran for a year and it upgraded many of my burned cd's over to their DRM-free equivalent .M4A albums, which was also great. A couple of years back, I learned about apple-lossless, which is a 1-for-1 bit copy of music from the cd, albeit the resulting files are larger. I do that now with any new physical albums I buy. As to stuff I've bought through iTunes...., no audio or acoustic complaints whatever. So basically, the suit is about something that apple already addressed years ago. To my mind, that makes it frivolous. The suit is about recovering damages to pay back to people who got screwed back when Apple was acting in a fraudulent manner. That's not frivolous in my book. If they no longer do it, that's fine but a lot of people spent a lot of money back then buying stuff that Apple had intentionally "booby trapped" to force users into only using Itunes as their source. It was s stupid thing to do, they would have won anyway without doing that. If Apple had been truthful and said: "Hey! Come buy music that can oly be transferred to an Ipod and by the way, the Ipod has traps to make it incompatible with other music sources." That's OK, but IPods were EXPENSIVE then and people didn't find out about it until after they were "hooked". It was dumb, and Apple will probably pay damages back to users..... I'm sure everybody will get about a buck and a half after the lawyers get paid.

Makes me wonder if it might go faster if you used a cotton cloth slightly damped in acetone to lightly rub the surface before polishing. That might remove some of the dead surface. I do that on my wife's saturn tail lights that cloud up badly and it usually helps.

And here is what ITunes puts up if you try to convert the MP4 file using the current Itunes. It's still screwed up.

For the record, this is what I was talking about. All the files I was buying were "MP4 protected" files which had to be converted as listed above (burn off to disk, re import to HD, recreate MP3 file) to get a usable file. Don't know what Apple sells now as I have not bought music from them in years.