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Tax they would, because apple will not release control over their hardware. There is no way that they will let other companies manufacture and sell hard drives for the iPod. As such, any separate "iPod" hard drive will easily be identified by said governmental agency and taxed. Historically, anything that can be taxed will be taxed until the people no longer support it. Thus, the number of people purchasing the iPods will greatly diminish in that country until the tax is no longer worthwhile. (But we all know that the gray/black market will feed the demand instead)

The problem lies with the fact that basically they are doubling the cost of ownership. I know a lot of people willing to throw down $300 for an iPod, but very few willing to spend $600.

I'd like to think that this could never happen in the US, but we just passed a law that would send someone to jail for 3 years just for letting out a sneak release. Personally I think a stiff fine and public humiliation would be much more appropriate.

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I'll pay $20 to the person who completes an offer first
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e-mail me after completion:
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I'll pay $20 to the person who completes an offer first
http://www.freephotoipods.com/?r=11487275

e-mail me after completion:
Socrplyr808@yahoo.com

When will I be able to get them for free?

When will I be able to get one for free?

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I know how hard it is to get away from the spammers once they get a hold of you. However, this group is at least legit.

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A very good program for special needs learners.
However, it is now owned by Riverdeep and they are one of the suckiest companies ever, so if you can get a free copy, don't feel bad about it.

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look up "Piercing the Corporate Veil"

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get a FREE MINI MAC for zero work. It's so easy.Plus I'll give you 5 bucks if you complete the offer using one of the links below or ten dollars for completing an offer for both of the links below

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has been upgraded with a larger hard drive and connects neatly to my projector. It's soooo quiet. VLC plays those VOB's nicely... well most of 'em.

I think if that was really the case, there would be a video out port. Are there adapters for the DVI out?

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As you know, I believe strongly that we must set aside every penny of any budget surplus until we have saved Social Security first.

Fiscal responsibility gave us our strong economy. Fiscal irresponsibility would put it at risk. And whether we save Social Security first I will not be moved, but on how we save Social Security -- that will require us to have open minds and generous spirits. It will require listening and learning and looking for the best ideas wherever they may be. We simply must put progress ahead of partisanship.

The stakes couldn't be higher. For 60 years, Social Security has reflected our deepest values -- the duties we owe to our parents, to each other and to our children. Today, 44 million Americans depend upon Social Security. For two-thirds of our seniors it is the main source of income. And nearly one in three beneficiaries are not retirees, for Social Security is also a life insurance policy and a disability policy, along with being a rock-solid guarantee of support in old age.

Today, Social Security is sound, but a demographic crisis is looming. By 2030, there will be twice as many elderly as there are today, with only two people working for every person drawing Social Security. After 2032, contributions from payroll taxes will only cover 75 cents on the dollar of current benefits. So we must act, and act now, to save Social Security.

I've probably been reading ThinkSecret since he was 13 and it's been consistently the most accurate of all the other rumor sites that I know of.

Way to go kid!

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Yep

Here's the WoW system requirements:

Mac® System OS X 10.3.5 OS:
933 MHz or higher G4 or G5 processor
512 MB RAM or higher; DDR RAM recommended
ATI or NVIDIA video hardware with 32 MB VRAM or more
4 GB or more of available hard drive space
MacOS X 10.3.5 or newer
56k or higher modem with an Internet connection

Since the cheapest Mac Mini has a 1.25 GHz processor and ATI Radeon 9200 with 32MB of VRAM then you should be set. Though since it only comes with 256 MB of RAM you'll probably need to upgrade to 512 MB, but you were going to do that anyway, right? Actually, you were going to max it out at 1 GB of RAM, right? ;)
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MirrorDot.org has a mirror up, but it's pretty slow right now. Get it while you can.
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What about the SCO Group's evidence that Linux contains Unix source code?

After nearly two years and Darl McBride's claims of "mountains of code" you'd think they'd have shown something by now.
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Why is everyone so hardcore against getting these free iPods? Ok, so you pay your time instead of money. No one's fooling me, but what's wrong with it?

Fine, I made an email address specifically to receive spam from these companies. You know what? I don't even get spam from them. I get more spam from Barnes and Noble than I ever got from Gratis or their affiliates.

You sign up for an offer you don't want, and you cancel and it doesn't cost you anything! Boo freaking hoo, what are you whining about. Get your friends to do the same, and you get some free hardware. Don't bitch about the macroscopic scale how do they make money.... The point is, if you do your part, they do theirs. I've personally seen people with devices they've received. It's not a scam, and they're not fooling me.

Fine, it's not free, it's a legitimate business trade. You generate commissions for other people, and they generate hardware for you.
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Try getting a free iPod from one of the many sites offering them.

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You could end up with serveral to hack...

Mostly it's the user interface and integration with iTunes. Plenty of other portable digital music devices have more features (like support for more formats), are smaller, and cheaper, but I've yet to try one that is as user-friendly as the iPod.

One thing that bugs me, however, is that iTunes for Windows refuses to behave like a standard windows app. When you minimize it, it doesn't become the last entry in the Alt+Tab list, and in general has some wacky GUI choices. I really wish Apple would take the time to address these issues, but even those short comings make it difficult to deny the ease of use of an iPod.

Also, you can get several for free.

Not everyone agrees. Kaitlin Duck Sherwood of San Francisco, author of a popular how-to manual on effective e-mail, argued in an interview that exclamation points could help convey intonation, thereby avoiding confusion in some e-mail.

"If you want to indicate stronger emphasis, use all capital letters and toss in some extra exclamation points," Sherwood advises in her guide...

Personally I like the other person's suggestion that you should be allowed only two exclamation points in [your] whole life. I've seen SO MANY DAMN CAPS and exclamation points!!! that I WANT TO SHOOT SOMEONE!!!!!

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Photographers who lack the inclination or the clout to persuade Adobe to publish Photoshop for the Linux platform, but care enough to take a hostile attitude when GIMP is mentioned as a potentially useful tool.

I was not trying to take a hostile attitude, if my posts came off as such then I appologize. I was just trying to point out one of the reasons why professional photographers would not be likely to use the GIMP.

That doesn't mean that the GIMP doesn't have other great uses outside of professional photography. From what I've seen it's good at what it does and you can't beat the price.

Since I'm a Mac user I'm not very likely to use the GIMP because it runs in a non-native X-Windows environment. But, being that I'm also a developer, porting the GIMP to a native Mac OS X Cocoa environment is something that interests me and someday I might want to sratch that itch. If I ever decide to sratch that itch then I might also help add support for 16-bit images (unless someone else has beaten me to the punch).

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But I missed the part where anyone, ever, asserted that GIMP was created as a tool for professional photographers to use.

Since the topic is Professional Photographers Using Linux? I assumed that we were talking about professional tools. The GIMP is a great tool at a great price, but it's just not there yet for the professional photographer. It'll probably get there some day though.

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> Currently the gimp is only 8 bit color.

I agree that GIMP isn't the tool for a professional photographer (and I'd argue that a Beseler and a Swiss 4x5 are the main tools, still), but my understanding is that GIMP has been 24-bit in RGB and 32-bit in RGBA for quite some time, and that the coming version will be 48-bit Float in RGB, and 128-bit Float in RGBA.

What he means is that the GIMP is 8-bits per component == RGB8 == 3 Components * 8-bits == 24-bits per pixel. Or RGBA8 == 4 Components * 8-bits == 32-bits per pixel. One of the bigger gripes among professional users is that the GIMP doesn't support 16-bits per component (RGB16) which is more common when converting RAW images to TIFF. Since professional photographers are probably shooting exclusively in the RAW formats for anything that they would sell then the GIMP is a tool that they cannot use.

As to the "48-bit Float" comment I assume you mean 96-bit Float for RGB (3 components * 32-bits = 96-bit) since the "float" type is 32-bits.
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As was demonstrated in Dan Rather's Memo flap, bloggers can sometimes be good fact checkers. In that instance people from all over the Internet scoured over what turned out to be fake documents. One person would offer his expertise and another would do the same. Eventually some people were able to contact real experts in the field and get them to verify that the documents were fake. Eventually the mainstream media took notice and the rest is history.

But bloggers are definitely not journalists. At best they offer their opinions on the news of the day, correct factual problems in news that was reported, and they also serve as a rallying point for other like-minded individuals. At worst though, blogs can be full of rumormongoring, hate and just noise. They won't be replacing any journalists any time soon, though their diligence may get one fired every now and then.

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Well of course, we chase after those lucrative free ipod deals!

(that, and on-call tech support)

It was genius, really. I hadn't really thought much about getting a mac until I saw & played w/ the iTunes software for windows. Has to be one of the most elegant & powerful interfaces around.

Now all I can think about it picking up a G5... damn you Apple!

Btw, anyone want a free one?

or the photo version

Where do you keep the nuclear wessels?

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We've got plenty of statistical data over the elections of the last 30-40 years (or even over the last century) that we don't even need to have elections anymore. I mean, elections are so expensive and time consuming. Not to mention all the time and money spent campaigning before the election. We can get rid of all of that and just project the winners based on past voting data!

Well, sure people will complain that their votes aren't being counted, but since no one's vote is being counted it is completely fair. The candidates will just tell us what their party is, what their positions are (assuming they can nail them down themselves), and the computers will do the rest.

OK, enough of that. C'mon people get over this. People vote differently all the time. Trying to analyze election results based on past elections is just stupid. Count the damn votes already and let them speak for themselves!

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In other news... (From an old Onion article)

REDMOND, WA--In what CEO Bill Gates called "an unfortunate but necessary step to protect our intellectual property from theft and exploitation by competitors," the Microsoft Corporation patented the numbers one and zero Monday.

With the patent, Microsoft's rivals are prohibited from manufacturing or selling products containing zeroes and ones--the mathematical building blocks of all computer languages and programs--unless a royalty fee of 10 cents per digit used is paid to the software giant.

"Microsoft has been using the binary system of ones and zeroes ever since its inception in 1975," Gates told reporters. "For years, in the interest of the overall health of the computer industry, we permitted the free and unfettered use of our proprietary numeric systems. However, changing marketplace conditions and the increasingly predatory practices of certain competitors now leave us with no choice but to seek compensation for the use of our numerals."


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If ever there were an example of how completely broken and useless the current patent system is then this is it. This makes you think, what other obvious and trivial functions have been granted patents? Can I get a patent on strcmp? I'll just apply for a patent on my new, special function that I just recently came up with. It's called StringCompare!

As I right this my colleagues are writing up patent applications for the !=, ==, &&, ||, &, and | operators. I expect these applications to be granted shortly, after which we'll own all your code and Microsoft will be my bitch.

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Raimi has commented on this before (because fans keep bugging him to do another in the series). The reason he hasn't done it before is that no one would finance the movie because it would probably not make money until it came out on dvd (if then). Raimi has plenty of money himself. In case you haven't noticed, he's directed a few hits since Evil Dead/AoD . . . Spiderman, Spiderman 2, The Gift, and The Quick and the Dead to name a few.

We should take this as a gift.

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Who can complain, when the ipods are free?

Well, when you can get ipods for free isn't it an easy decision? When someone starts giving creative mp3 players away I'll think about it.

Well, it looks like the Japanese price is 19,800 Yen which turns out to be about $190. I don't know if that's what Sony will sell it for here and I expect they might sell it for lower considering the Nintendo DS will be selling for $150. But who knows.

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Then I might be able to learn a bit more about it on its official website. Does anyone have a translation that isn't taken from BabelFish or some other lame auto translation site? I'd like to know all the official specs and stuff.

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There is no excuse for this kind of behavior in the gaming industry, or any other industry for that matter. If I recall, the gaming industry is expected to make more money than Hollywood this year. An industry with these huge revenues can afford to treat their workers humanely. In fact, I believe that it is the developers and artists that make a game successful, that these are the people that should be getting the biggest share of the profits. Not some nitwit CEO or other executive.

There are those that say that working in the gaming industry is a privilege, that there are tons of people out there that would die for your job, that these programmers shouldn't complain. Well, frankly there are tons of people out there that want my job or that want your job. That doesn't mean that they will do it better than you or I do our jobs. And that sure as hell doesn't give my (or your) employer the right to treat me like an animal and work me until I'm burned out.

Employers like EA need to change and they'll eventually be forced to if they keep burning through their talent.

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