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Why iPod Mini is a smart move for Apple
Ample Dave writes "Ars Technica has an analytical article up right now that looks at Apple's strategy with the (many would say overpriced) iPod Mini. I have to admit that I bought into the rumors of a dirt cheap iPod Jr., and thus was very disappointed when the real price of $250 was announced, but this article changed my mind. It leads me to wonder about Apple's other pricing games. You an see this kind of thing with the eMac and iMac, too."
West Des Moines, January 26, 2004 - They came to town, tried to get your vote and then left for New Hampshire.
But one presidential candidate may have left a big bill for a small West Des Moines deli. The campaigns ate, drank and slept at dozens of places across town. For the most part they paid their bills.
This is how it's supposed to work inside the Brown Bag Deli. Owner Scott Hoffman makes you a turkey sandwich and then you pay for it.
Scott will tell you deliveries are a little different, especially one back on the 16th of this month. That was a big order for this small business of four employees. 200 brown bag specials...with turkey, roast beef, ham and veggie sandwiches. The total...$963.01.
As he headed out that day, Scott remembered this customer has paid its bills late a couple times before. So he promised delivery this time with one condition, "c.o.d."
He showed up at the customer's downtown office just in time for lunch. The Dean headquarters was utter chaos. But he couldn't find anyone who'd pay him. They said try the other building next door. Same answer next door, try the other building. Scott went back and forth for 20 minutes. Nobody would pay.
He just assumed they would pay in good faith. After all, Dick Gephardt's campaign paid its lunch bills on time. And Howard Dean has thousands of followers in Iowa. Can't one of them give Scott his money?
We tried all day to reach Howard Dean's people-- no comment from them yet. By the way, Scott Hoffman says he considered himself a possible Dean supporter before the incident. He's since changed his mind.
We're checking unpaid debts from other campaigns and haven't found any yet.
who saw iMac and eMac and thought "Escape Meta Alt Control Shift"? :) Just not a Mac fan I guess. =/
The World Wide Web is dying. Soon, we shall have only the Internet.
Yup, right. But Apple is doing other things right, too - like Mac OS X being a solid operating system based on Mach and various BSDs. We run our web and CVS server on OS X and it's cranking along just fine.
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I'm just wondering if other people are seeing a great deal of Internet congestion, or if it's just something local to me and my employer over my lunch break...a lot of sites are seeming slooooow...
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Explain SUV's
Having owned three of them (no, not the monster ones, Jeep Grand Cherokees) it's pretty simple. I don't want a huge H2 or anything. Or a Ford Excursion. Or an Escalade.
I live in Minnesota. I want a vehicle that can handle the weather/ice. I want a vehicle with room to move stuff. I like a vehicle with some decent power (which is a safety feature, in my opinion) An All-wheel drive Minivan would work, but I also want something that looks decent.
My next SUV will most likely be a Ford Explorer or something along the lines of a Toyota 4Runner.
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Buy a Canon printer. Cheap ink and plently of refill kits available. Not like HP where you'll get raped on ink costs for the life of your printer.
My i560 was $89 at Costco and produces photo lab quality 4x6 prints in under a minute per print.
I used to hate dealing with printers and feeling like I bought a ink money pit. Now I couldn't be happier.
If you wanna get rich, you know that payback is a bitch
You can get the Dell DJ 15 for $224 which includes 15GB compared to Apple's 4GB. Dell's DJ 15
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but they're cool
It's the headlights. Ever notice SUV headlights? They are about the size of five-gallon buckets, with about 48,000 reflective chrome and glass surfaces.
People absolutely must have them (the headlights, that is: actual value: $19), so they drop $56,000 in lease payments so they'll have a nice big vehicle to walk around and around and around in parking lots while people wait for their space.
It's all very simple.
I know it's chic for people to hate SUVs right now, but, one shouldn't have to defend purchasing or using one. They serve a legitimate purpose. Don't worry about defending yourself. If you have the money and the desire, go ahead an buy whatever car/truck/van/SUV you want.
Here where I live, much like you, we need something more than a car. I prefer trucks, since I haul and tow things, but SUVs are great too for the mountain driving and carrying more passengers.
I guess I am just sick of people hating the SUV, while excluding the other options. SUVs are a very good all-around vehicle, and, yes this may be a surprise to slashdotters, but some of us don't live in florida, and yes, it actually snows a lot, and yes we do go offroad.
If you had nuts on your chin, would they be chin nuts?
SUV's have an "interesting" dynamic, which is that they're not safer for you to drive (except when you hit another SUV), but they are more dangerous to the rest of the people on the road. So while I can imagine some situations where an SUV would be useful (imagine having a bunch of kids with hockey gear, or having a career that involves moving a lot of equipment), but for the most part, I think that SUV drivers are somehat anti-social -- they drive vehicles that are huge, expensive, consume absurd resources, and are great at killing other drivers in accidents. Specifically, in accidents, SUV drivers die a little more often than non-SUV drivers (because they don't wear seatbelts more often for some reason), and kill non-SUV's that they collide with. So while people are "sold" SUV's as being safe, the statistics don't support that. I'm not too sure how this applies to MP3 players, though.
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