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PLEASE! There has to be at least one Mac firm out here on the west coast that is willing to take on a very dedicated, young Mac software engineer who has EXPERIENCE with:

• Programming in Carbon (core foundation), Cocoa, and -when absolutely necessary- Java.
• I was taught Assembly Language programming specifically on the PowerPC architecture!
• Working with alpha testers at remote sites.
• Writing compatibility software for Directory Service protocols such as NIS, LDAP, and OpenDirectory.
  I know a lot about Kerberos too.
• Integrating MacOS X machines into Solaris and Windows network environments.
• Writing user documentation that users can actually understand, as well as technical writing.
• MacOS X System Administration, as well as managing Macs in computing labs and offices.
• Mac Hardware support, service and repair.
• Presently studying to take the CCNA exam.
• Has worked in the entertainment industry and has a vast knowledge of: Special Effects (digital and optical), Post Production and Editing, and Digital Audio Production including music.

I hold a B.S. in Computer Science; my résumé is available in PDF format here.
I am eager, and willing to accept even an unpaid internship provided that such a position is specifically Mac-centered and deals with software development. More information is also available on my main web page:http://home.earthlink.net/~dwbrowne

Thank you,

-D. Browne

Although the article doesn't mention it, Ashcroft has praised the Meese Commission's attempt to "free" the US from pornography during the Reagan administration, despite the fact that it failed miserably.

The sociologists and other experts commissioned to study the sociological effects of pornography submitted a report that the administration didn't like at all: basically, it said that there's no causal link between porn and violent crime (sexual or otherwise), and that pornography is a good thing in general.

Ashcroft admires Meese, of course, and has called him a defender of 'liberty.' Just another example of the modern American trend consistently to refer to the retraction of civil liberties as the definition of the defense of freedom.

well, will at least be sucked up to by sales droids to open their wallets and pay for the wooden ones

Who needs fancy wood speaker cones when sales droids can already sell a set of piece of shit $2.50 paper cone speakers for $3000+? (yes, I'm talking about Bose). However, I wouldn't trash the idea that audiophiles can tell the difference between cone materials. I'm no audiophile, but I've listened to enough mid- to high-range systems that I can tell what sounds good to me and what doesn't.

If Bose systems sound good to you, and you don't mind paying 3 to 5 times more than necessary, then enjoy! My own shitty Definitive satellite system set me back less than $1000, and sounds just as good to me as a friend's $3000 Lifestyle system from Bose (both suffer from being satellite speakers rather than full-range, but at least I saved $2000 with my purchase).

The Collection won't be complete w/ out Father Guido Sarducci Or the Jive Guys from Airplane

einstein didn't think so...

People like us, who believe in physics,
know that the distinction between past,
present, and future is only a stubbornly
persistent illusion. (Albert Einstein)

'HEAT IS THE FOURTH DIMENSION'

regards,
john.

Here is a Spanish Milled Dollar reference. And here's the official info about it from the US Mint.

'Mexican Peso' indeed. Harumph.

Why's everyone so gaga about Bell Labs? I'm sooooo tired of listening to the whining and pining about the good old days when Bell Labs was seen as glittering family jewels. As Moms Mabley would say "I was there in the good ol days and they weren't so good." I worked there for about 20 years on the development side of the house. The place was very far from the land called utopia.

• First of all Bell Labs only began grudgingly hiring African-Americans after people marched on Murray Hill. Back then the excuse for not wanting to hire us was that we were "unqualified" and now many of us are having a problem finding work because we are seen as "overqualified"! Go figure.
• Second, the place has been in decline since before divestiture 1.0, back in the 1980s. This article presents nothing new.
• Third, the transistor was a great invention (I'm using a few FETs and BJTs right now), but enough with the idol worship of the inventors. Schockley, the co-daddy of the transistor, was a bitter, white supremacist! Pu-leeease! These people were people, not gods!
• Lastly, I'm glad that the golden boys and girls (very few girls btw) of research were able to find work. However many of us who were on the development side of the house are still scrambling to find work in a market that has an increasingly skeptical view of our Bell Labs credentials. Too many potential employers see the Bell Labs experience on our resume as an indication that we are "too theroretical", and "not hands-on" (Say, what!???). If you're on the "R" side BL experience is good, but if you're on the "D" side it works against you; the sword cuts both ways.

Anonymous Coward (AKA Jesse B. Simple)

For years, popular writers have accused Sholes of deliberately arranging his keyboard to slow down fast typists who would otherwise jam up his sluggish machine. In fact, his motives were just the opposite.

When Sholes built his first model in 1868, the keys were arranged alphabetically in two rows. At the time, Milwaukee was a backwoods town. The crude machine shop tools available there could hardly produce a finely-honed instrument that worked with precision. Yes, the first typewriter was sluggish. Yes, it did clash and jam when someone tried to type with it. But Sholes was able to figure out a way around the problem simply by rearranging the letters. Looking inside his early machine, we can see how he did it.

The first typewriter had its letters on the end of rods called "typebars." The typebars hung in a circle. The roller which held the paper sat over this circle, and when a key was pressed, a typebar would swing up to hit the paper from underneath. If two typebars were near each other in the circle, they would tend to clash into each other when typed in succession. So, Sholes figured he had to take the most common letter pairs such as "TH" and make sure their typebars hung at safe distances.

He did this using a study of letter-pair frequency prepared by educator Amos Densmore, brother of James Densmore, who was Sholes' chief financial backer. The QWERTY keyboard itself was determined by the existing mechanical linkages of the typebars inside the machine to the keys on the outside. Sholes' solution did not eliminate the problem completely, but it was greatly reduced.

The keyboard arrangement was considered important enough to be included on Sholes' patent granted in 1878 (see drawing), some years after the machine was into production. QWERTY's effect, by reducing those annoying clashes, was to speed up typing rather than slow it down. I csn't believe people still think Sholes crippled his layout to slow people down.

Cidco makes a product called the MailStation. It's a keyboard connected to a small LCD screen for people who just want email. As it's a single-purpose device, I suspect that it's relatively easy to use.

All right, I'm not the best photo-manipulator... but here.

Someone posted the story and an analysis, too.

I get 3mb down and 384kb up from Earthlink for only $41.95/mon. This is the residential account. $199/mon is VERY overpriced for that bandwidth.

This guy is viewed as a Class-A crackpot in Austin, Texas. He has a cable access show twice a week in which he rants about conspiracy theories of all kinds of varieties.

Before you start calling people names you should do your research. Everything he covers is not a conspiracy theory but conspiracy fact. He does not talk about things he can't back up with news articles, witnesses etc. He even tells you to not believe him and do the research yourself.

He has run numerous shows on how the government literally has black helicopters following him around South Austin.

He was predicting armageddon when the Y2K bug was supposed to hit.

He never said that the Y2K bug was going to cause armegeddon. In fact he said it was a distration story that FEMA would use as an excuse to put in their command centers.

He fully espouses the notion that Bush not only had previous-knowledge of 9/11 but planned it.

He did a special where he claims that all presidents past and present meet at Bohemiam Grove, worship an owl god, and sacrifice children.

So before you bash someone because their views are different than yours, I suggest you do the research!

rule of thumb: you should pay about the same for your stereo
system as you pay your whole music collection.

example: say you've the kind of person who's only bought 10 CDs.
at ~CDN$15/each, that's about $150 - so you shouldn't buy a stereo
worth more than about $150 - a cheap gheto blaster will do you fine.

on the other hand -- say you're the kind of person who's really
into music, and you've bought yourself about 300 - 400 CDs - at the
same rate, that's about $4500 - so you shouldn't feel bad about going
out and getting yourself the high-end LINN stereo system to listen to
them on, since you're probably also the kind of person who's going
to appreciate that kind of system.

if you're in the middle -- say you've got a modest collection of about
30-50 CDs - at ~$15/each -- well then the cost of an ipod would about
match that, and you'd be in the right range to be buying such a device.

the cost of the player shoud roughly equal the cost of your collection.

regards,
johnrpenner.

It still has some broken links, though.

I coincidentally found this last night - a list of all the 555 numbers used in films.

AT LAST! The secret to beating Solitaire... This could perhaps be the most significant event of our times!

Shh, don't tell anybody but the solutions for all 32,000 Microsoft FreeCell deals (except for number 11982 which can't be won) have already been posted!!!

I feel pathetic for knowing this.

At least I didn't try playing them all myself, right?

--LP

I did not claim that the metric of brain activity is a bad idea. Based on my theory you just have to convince people that prior to brain activity embryos/fetuses are quite dissimilar to us.

You can go to jail for killing a dog, btw:
http://www.home.earthlink.net/~blindworld/GUIDEDOG /3-05-05-01.htm (just first link I found from web search, I recall other examples)

There are several methods by which this could be accomplished.

The first is to create a link budget using the two-ray approximation (1/R^4 attenuation) and the estimated antenna patterns. This allows one to bound the maximum range as a function of antenna orientation and receiver sensitivity. Most likely this is the analysis that was done when installing the network.

A second and much more enjoyable way is to use a ray-trace simulation program such as Wireless InSite to model your campus. This model will pick up multipath effects and folliage losses.

The most time consuming but most accurate method is to walk around with an antenna, measuring the power as one goes. It should be noted that when one measures in a given location the power will change over time sometimes quickly. Known as Rayleigh fading, it is due to time-varying multipath from a dynamic environment.

I recommend tracking down a communications professor in EE and borowing their copy of Wireless InSite. If you pitch it right you could even get a credit of independent study from it.

Michael.

What heated things up, in my opinion, was a little bit of implied interspecies relations. :) Quoting from the script:

ROHIRRIM CAMP
EOWYN: Here, little fellow. Put this armor on.
MERRY: Thanks much, my lady. Ooh, I don't think you fastened my belt right. Could you put your hands there again? ...Ahh, that's it; right there...
EOMER: Wow, sis, you are getting desperate.
EOWYN: Look at this hobbit: can you honestly tell me he isn't brave and handsome, and doesn't inspire your courage?
EOMER: (snicker) Uh, sure. Sure, he's great. Yeah. (gives MERRY thumbs-up sign) You go, dude.

I am not particularly perverted, but that episode clearly was either totally exhilarating or horribly disgusting. :) To hear Eomer worrying about the reach of Merry's arm. :))) Priceless!

Not sure how widely known this is, but Comcast is a Microsoft company. So, if you're wondering why they engage in senseless, draconian authoritarianism...now ya know why!

DSL has been berry berry goot to me. SO, if you have a choice do yourself a favor! Personally I use Earthlink DSL and they pretty much leave you to your own. I've been running websited, ftp, news. The only hurdle I haven't taken on is as of yet is getting sendmail working. The only port they block is 25. I send linux isos from work to my home ftp server and other large files on a frequent basis. My friends also download said those same iso's and in over a year and a half not a PEEP out of them about bandwidth hogging!

The unwinnable game you're looking for is 11982, I believe.

GTRacer
- Free FreeCell now, stupid Admin policies!

PC-DOS 1.00 Filelist and screenshot; the wrs0286 abandonware site has a PC-DOS 1.00 zip file but it's actually version 3.30.

/sigh, I hate when the preview button doesn't work. here's the link that works

As an aside, that site needs to stick it's head between it's knees and kiss it's ass goodbye, cuz here comes the slashdotting ^^

For those who dont want to copy and paste, here is a link
http://home.earthlink.net/~wifi-shootout/

This is a nifty table that explains why Russian engines are so desireable.

This is a fluffier piece on the RD-180, now being built in the US under license.

Finally, this is a crowded table of all the Energomash engines. NOTE: this table's hard to read, and you'll find some WILD variants...

Here are some links that I saved quite a while ago. Neurofeedback and Biofeedback devices,resources and such. These links probably aren't much better than what's been posted already, but I stuck them here anyway. Some "Biofeedback Doctors" are better than others, just like any other specialization. Some are totally worthless actually. Just like anything else KEEP TRYING--persistance is the key.

i'll start out by saying that if there is a small, local ISP near you, it might be a good way to go, provided you don't travel or plan to move in this lifetime.

with that said ...

i've been a satisfied EarthLink customer for many years now. I switched to their broadband offering since it first came out, and have gladly seen their services dramatically improve. EarthLink makes a lot a sense in my case, as i do travel around quite a bit and find it easy to find and connect to a local POP while using a portion of the 20 hours of free dial-up time that come with my broadband account. They have consistently been at the forefront of spam-fighting efforts, be them legal, or thru software. Their spam-fighting solutions are top-notch, especially since their recently-released Total Access for Mac OS X which allows you to sync your Mac OS X Address Book data with their server, allowing you to almost instantly "whitelist" everyone you know, as Mail.app makes it easy/automatic to add contacts to your address book based on mails received and/or sent. I do also appreciate their other initiatives to fight other Internet annoyances: Pop-Up blocker, server-side scrubbing of e-mail-bound viruses (Virus Blocker), SpyWare blocker which have been resulting in my having to spend less time trying to help my PC-using friends debug their machines. They've also recently released for both Mac OS X and windows, their "EarthLink Accelerator" which is totally bad-ass and results in a dramatic accelration of web-surfing, especially when i use my 15" Apple Aluminum Powerbook's bluetooth connectivity with my Sony Ericsson t610 to dial-up to my EarthLink account at speeds that are limited to less than 14.4Kbps. EarthLink Accelerator is technology licensed from Propel Networks, these guys are really really cool.

so again, Mom and Pop shops are a good alternative, but do keep EarthLink in mind if you're an impatient Internet user. (which i am, to a great extent heh).

This is exactly the model proposed by Haisch, Rueda, Puthoff, Ibison, Cole and Little in the Stochastics ElectroDynamics (SED) theory. They show that gravity is a long-range Van der Waals sort of force caused by repulsion by the vacuum because of quantum fluctuations. For example, that's the kind of repulsion shown in the Casimir effect, if you cut off part of the quantum fluctuations with conductive plates, or mask them partly with matter, you get a force because of the rest of the Universe around, in the same way that removing the air in a closed tube plunged in water makes the water rise inside it because of the air pressure around. The papers can be found here (careful, there are also some, err, rather dubious documents by Tom Bearden).

The theory also shows that inertia is a Lorentz magnetic force caused by quantum fluctuations in the vacuum, and that mass is a purely abstract concept (Mach's Principle). It's consistent with General Relativity and Quantum Mechanics.

I never had Legos (they were too expensive for us) but I had their poorer cousins: minimal sets of Lincoln Logs, TinkerToys, and American Bricks (the old wooden ones that didn't stick together by themselves, so one had to be conscious of load-bearing structures). Part of the challenge, and a great educator in itself, was figuring out how to create what I envisioned, using only my very limited supplies and their very limited capabilities.

My other major toy was a sandbox, where everything was my own creation, limited only by what one can coerce sand into doing. A bike is somewhat the same sort of toy, in that it does nothing on its own, but can be used in ways beyond the obvious.

Toys which do the playing for the child effectively limit a child's imagination, and thereby stunt their personal growth. Parents should consider whether a toy fosters creative play, or merely channels the child's mind into a pre-determined conduit.

Worst case, toys which control how the child plays could be used to raise a generation desperately in need of individualized tinfoil hats. I've actually seen this done to some extent, in preschools aimed toward a particular cultural training.

Holger Isenberg, the guy behind mars-news.de, is one of many kooks out there who are too ugly and interpersonally incompetent to ever hope to get laid in this life time. He must therefore resort to enclosing himself into his imaginary universe of in-bred conspiracy theories. enjoy.

NASA has always made raw data available to the public, which is what you can leverage thru the Maestro the software. The red tint observed in composite pictures made available to the public are, in fact, a fairly accurate representation of the truth. Pictures MUST be composited to be available in a JPEG format Joe Six Pack can look at in his browser, hence some level of alteration is necessary. There is no lie. There is no conspiracy. Even your average Joe Six Pack can grok the fact that some basic alterations are necessary to represent flat images. Otherwise Joe Six Pack can always download Maestro.

Holger Isenberg, the guy behind mars-news.de, is one of many kooks out there who are too ugly and interpersonally incompetent to ever hope to get laid in this life time. He must therefore resort to enclosing himself into his imaginary universe of in-bred conspiracy theories. enjoy.

NASA has always made raw data available to the public, which is what you can leverage thru the Maestro the software. The red tint observed in composite pictures made available to the public are, in fact, a fairly accurate representation of the truth. Pictures MUST be composited to be available in a JPEG format Joe Six Pack can look at in his browser, hence some level of alteration is necessary. There is no lie. There is no conspiracy. Even your average Joe Six Pack can grok the fact that some basic alterations are necessary to represent flat images. Otherwise Joe Six Pack can always download Maestro.

"!! sic heil, gunter !!"

Funny you should mention that...

This seems to be a German , or at least European, thing, not a USA thing.

try
opening this in photoshop

( Is it just me, or does that not look too much like money ? )

you get a popup with a link to RULESFORUSE.ORG

whois on RULESFORUSE.ORG gets you this

Domain ID:D11574933-LROR
Domain Name:RULESFORUSE.ORG
Created On:22-Oct-1999 03:28:15 UTC
Last Updated On:21-Sep-2003 20:38:12 UTC
Expiration Date:22-Oct-2006 03:28:15 UTC
Sponsoring Registrar:R63-LROR
Status:OK
Registrant ID:1386191-NSI
Registrant Name:EUROPEAN CENTRAL BANK
Registrant Organization:EUROPEAN CENTRAL BANK
Registrant Street1:Eurotower Kaiserstrasse 29
Registrant City:FRANKFURT
Registrant State/Province:FRANKFURT
Registrant Postal Code:160319
Registrant Country:DE
Registrant Email:no.valid.email@worldnic.net
Admin ID:1386191-NSI
Admin Name:EUROPEAN CENTRAL BANK
Admin Organization:EUROPEAN CENTRAL BANK
Admin Street1:Eurotower Kaiserstrasse 29
Admin City:FRANKFURT
Admin State/Province:FRANKFURT
Admin Postal Code:160319
Admin Country:DE
Admin Email:no.valid.email@worldnic.net
Tech ID:1386191-NSI
Tech Name:EUROPEAN CENTRAL BANK
Tech Organization:EUROPEAN CENTRAL BANK
Tech Street1:Eurotower Kaiserstrasse 29
Tech City:FRANKFURT
Tech State/Province:FRANKFURT
Tech Postal Code:160319
Tech Country:DE
Tech Email:no.valid.email@worldnic.net
Name Server:AUTH111.NS.UU.NET
Name Server:AUTH120.NS.UU.NET

earthlink only shows 7 text ads. google shows 10 but piles most in the right column. i filter graphical ad banners. ergo, to me, earthlink's results page loads faster than google's. try it. u'll see. earthlink is also my isp, i like what it does to fight spam and other annoyances, and happens to be a convenient way for me to search, and i'd frankly rather send a few advertising $$$ their way thru their revenue sharing with google on adwords clickthrus, than simply sending all the money google's way. strangely, i also find earthlink's search results page easier on the eye than google's. i don't know why. 's'just me. and i do like seeing 7 sponsored results before actual results as i'm often shop-searching, and regard sponsored and actual results with equal importance. i'll typically scour actual search results for reviews abour products i'm looking to buy, such as lately digital video cameras, then peek at the sponsored results to start comparing prices in different browser tabs, after which i'll eventually click on earthlink's "shopping link to refine my price comparisons in yet another tab on their dealtime-hosted shopping site. at the end of all that, i've got a pretty good idea about how much various items go for, and what their quality is. anyway. it's just *my* habits.

earthlink only shows 7 text ads. google shows 10 but piles most in the right column. i filter graphical ad banners. ergo, to me, earthlink's results page loads faster than google's. try it. u'll see. earthlink is also my isp, i like what it does to fight spam and other annoyances, and happens to be a convenient way for me to search, and i'd frankly rather send a few advertising $$$ their way thru their revenue sharing with google on adwords clickthrus, than simply sending all the money google's way. strangely, i also find earthlink's search results page easier on the eye than google's. i don't know why. 's'just me. and i do like seeing 7 sponsored results before actual results as i'm often shop-searching, and regard sponsored and actual results with equal importance. i'll typically scour actual search results for reviews abour products i'm looking to buy, such as lately digital video cameras, then peek at the sponsored results to start comparing prices in different browser tabs, after which i'll eventually click on earthlink's "shopping link to refine my price comparisons in yet another tab on their dealtime-hosted shopping site. at the end of all that, i've got a pretty good idea about how much various items go for, and what their quality is. anyway. it's just *my* habits.

Nasa has taken down the 8MB hires image off it's site due to bandwidth problems (/.ing aint helping im sure. I managed to get it earlier today and put a copy of it on my otherwise useless earthlink web area - Im sure that one will get hammered in short order too, so if anyone with a robust web server can get it and provide a better mirror, be my guest.

They could also be looking to buy an ISP. Google is an on-line destination. What brings people to Google? ISPs! EarthLink looks like a good candidate. Both companies seem to have similar philosophies in terms of striving to give their users what they need.

They could also be looking to buy an ISP. Google is an on-line destination. What brings people to Google? ISPs! EarthLink looks like a good candidate. Both companies seem to have similar philosophies in terms of striving to give their users what they need.

mmm. like dis? ;]. Or .. might as well keep it simple.

mmm. like dis? ;]. Or .. might as well keep it simple.

i don't mean to be karma-whoring ... i couldn't resist ... here is the search you mentioned. I also excluded naked (per your suggestion) and Nicky (her sister):

+"paris hilton" +hotel -naked -porn -tape -nicky

it does indeed work quite well!

thanks for your most informative post :)

My coolest (also weirdest?) Xmas present was a binary clock. My brother built it for me based on his own design. Quality construction - the hour, minutes, and seconds light up with different color LEDs, and it also has a sweeping-hand clock for noobs that can't read binary. :-) Mounted on a nice wooden back.

Here's a photo: front.jpg

The yellow tape covers the battery - it's removed now. The battery stores the last time on the clock, in case of a temporary power outtage, so you don't have to reset the clock. Very cool.

A quick Google search for "Lomborg citations" came up with a piece on Lomborg's clever use of misdirection and this review with citations of critiques. Lomborg's complete failure to acknowledge disasters like the vanishing Aral sea, falling Ogalalla aquifer and other known problems with anything like the seriousness they deserve (how are you going to continue irrigated agriculture in Texas and Oklahoma if the Ogalalla is pumped dry?) proves that his "don't worry, be happy" conclusion is bunk.

Perhaps the most colorful accusation against Lomborg is from that second link:

It is as though he is affected with a form of academic autism; able to do the math better than most mere mortals, but unable to comprehend the connections ordinary people understand as part of daily life.

(Damn, I've been spending a lot of time on Google for this discussion!)

OK

let's hope not too many people look at this or Earthlink'll get PO'd.

Walking-new.mov

i call bullshit. for one, my guess is you are not an industrial designer. secondly, just because "standards" are there or emerging, or you'd wish there was a standard, has every chance, moral, and legal right to be irrelevant to Apple: if standards don't fit the bill, then fuck the standards, inferior devices can adhere to those standards and lose marketshare all they want to the sleeker iPod.

have you even looked at the shape of the battery we're talking about?. What trap door would accomodate that? you'd basically have to replace screws with ugly-protruding latches. change form factor? then the battery becomes bulgy and the iPod is no-longer slick and thin. i'm sure i'm barely scraping the surface. let's scrape some more though:

Part of the appeal of the whole Apple look is that it is one solid block of metal, no rugged edges, nothing to protrude, and yes that includes NO easy-to-open little battery door. Tiny digital cameras are NOT ipods. what you call tiny is actually way fucking bigger a form factor than an iPod. But again, beyond mere technical challenges, this whole issue is also about DESIGN. read my lips. D E S I G N. Nothing, absolutely nothing about the way Apple industrially designs its products is a result of a coincidence. Users like the iPod because it is simple. There isn't a lot of shit on it that catches the eye, things to fuck with that may confuse you, make you needlessly use your brain, and/or otherwise hurt the eye.

i've have litterally seen high-school chicks use the back of their fucking iPod as a make-up mirror. silly huh? guess what all their friends want for x-mas? Now. you wanna stick an ugly-ass trap-door to further mingle a pimple-ridden teenage chick's face? What about personalized engraved notes in the back of the iPod? If you want such note to live in an esthetically pleasing environment, while retaining all the attention, you can't have lines, holes, trap doors on the same surface. imagine a blank sheet of paper on your bed with a message in blue ink right at the center that says "thanks for last night". Now, imagine the same message written on the back of a shrivelled croissant-wrapper with the bakery's logo on it. not quite the same impact is it? it is that silly type of detailed attention to DESIGN, among many other features, that makes the iPod a truly unique consumer item. i'm sure Apple pays people to sit around all fucking day and think of the impact of silly shit like that. silly, but it works.

now. i understand people's frustration about their battery issues but hey, from a moral standpoint, that's the kinda shit they should have thought of before buying the iPod. $100 to change a battery is NOT the end of the world. I'll gladly pay $50 to some techie on top of the cost of the battery to ensure he successfully upgrades my battery without fuckin' it up. otherwise ill just do it myself. it ain't impossible to do. Even $100 is not a bad deal, Sony charges $100 for the rechargeable battery that fits their DSC P50 digital camera, and you don't really know you gotta buy the battery until after you buy the camera and realize that 2 AA batteries only let you take a few pictures. Unless you are like me and always read reviews of consumer products on amazon before buying. I'm not exactly seeing Sony being sued over this right now. legal foot to stand on? my ass. which brings me to my next point ...

from a legal standpoint, Apple never said their battery would last a lifetime. in fact Apple doesn't even advertise iPod as being a lifetime device. In fact what piece of consumer electronics ever makes such claims? NONE. NOT ONE. this is why Best Buy, Good Guys, Fry's

(I was born there, which probably explains a lot. :)

Actually, it's a nice little "quintessential small midwestern farm town" (from the photos on the site you kindly linked to, it hasn't changed much since I was last there in 1972) so I'm mildly amazed that it's grown a K-Mart, let alone a Walmart!

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In OS X, as well, you go to the exact same place to edit any application's preferences, right under the application menu in the upper left. This makes sense if you plan on using several applications or if you get any new applications. It is also much easier to handle, especially for anyone who is new to computers.

In OS X, as well, you go to the exact same place to edit any application's preferences, right under the application menu in the upper left. This makes sense if you plan on using several applications or if you get any new applications. It is also much easier to handle, especially for anyone who is new to computers.