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Apple Announces MacBook Air
Apple made four announcements at MacWorld Expo: the new MacBook Air, new features for the iPhone and iPod Touch, and movie rentals via iTunes from a TV without a computer involved. The new portable gets most of the attention. It is 0.76" thick at the thickest part, tapering to 0.16". It weighs 3 pounds and has a 13.3" screen and full-size, backlit keyboard. Its Intel chip is the diameter of a dime and the thickness of a nickel. The MacBook Air will cost $1799 and up. Its storage is either 80 GB disk or 64 GB solid-state drive. 2 GB of memory. It has no optical drive (an external one is available for $99) and features a way to wirelessly use the optical drive of any nearby Mac or PC with the proper software installed.
And here in this other thread I just told someone they were stealing air by breathing. It now looks like you can steal air, and the air ain't cheap. Almost two grand?
Not wanting to RTFA, why is it called "air"? And why is wifi called wifi?
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Caught in the Crosshairs (mf, reluc, blackmail)
I turned and went through the small hallway toward the Oval Office and President Clinton followed closely behind me. When I turned around at the end of the small hallway, he was right next to me. He expressed regret for my situation and gave me a big hug, but his hug lasted a little too long. I pulled back. All of a sudden, he was running his hands in my hair and around the back of my neck.
What the hell?
He kissed me on my mouth and, before I knew it, I was backed up in the corner, against the closed bathroom door and the wall behind the Oval Office. The president's hands were all over me, just all over me. And all I could think was, What the hell is he doing? Just what is he doing?
I tried to twist away. He was too powerful. President Clinton is almost a foot taller than I am and nearly double my weight. I couldn't get away and could barely think. I didn't know what I was supposed to do. He was my friend. And he was the president of the United States.
I finally managed to say, "What are you doing?"
"I've wanted to do this," he said, "since the first time I laid eyes on you."
What?
I was terrified for my husband, for my family, for our future, and the president says he's wanted to do this since he laid eyes on me? I was totally unprepared for that.
Then he took my hand. I didn't understand what he was doing. The president put my hand on his genitals, on his erect penis. I was shocked! I yanked my hand away but he was forceful. He ran his hands all over me, touching me everywhere, up my skirt, over my blouse, my breasts. He pressed up against me and kissed me. I didn't know what to do. I could slap him or yell for help. My mind raced. And the only thing I noticed was that his face had turned red, literally beet red....
In a different setting, with a different man, I probably would have yelled for help. Were it not for Andrew Friendly banging on the door and Bentsen and Panetta pacing outside, I would have felt more vulnerable. Indeed, I would have been more vulnerable. Had he the opportunity--the time and privacy--I believe Clinton would have raped me that day, just as, I believe, he raped Juanita Broaddrick.
As it was, he violated me. He exploited me and betrayed my trust, but he did not injure me. More than all that, I thought My God, this is the president of the United States, and this is the way he acts in the Oval Office? It conveys my heritage and upbringing that the main thing on my mind was that what he had done to me was just not proper . The man disgraced himself. He was humiliated in my eyes. I was truly embarrassed for him....
As I reached the door to the reception area, I turned to President Clinton and said, "Thank you for taking the time to see me, Mr. President." Apparently, part of me still respected the presidency, if not the president, and propriety, if not the person. Stunned, I was polite to the last and, to my horror, those words tumbled out of my mouth. Thank you for taking the time to see me? Thank you for taking the time to assault me when I cam to you in despair?
My heart was pounding. Thoughts raced through my head about what he'd done. The stories and rumors I'd heard came flooding in. I'd never believed those stories before, but now I had to process all of it over again, rethink it all. This is really the truth here. This is what he does.
I don't get the bashing here either, but can we refrain from childish AC name-calling? I'm as big an Apple fanboy as it gets, but your post is just incoherent and uncalled for.
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Seriously. You're like that ass hole who loaded his car up with tech goodies to cross the Continental U.S. and break some record; it was here on
So you can laugh all you want to...
There is no way your car got its best mileage at 70 mph. Read about hypermiling sometime. The energy requires to maintain your speed goes up exponentially with an increase in speed. 70mph is never going to be the most efficient unless you are comparing drafting to non-drafting.
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Last I checked, many people get killed in accidents that weren't avoided because someone was going over the speed limit.
Well, I give a hats off to those who want to go green, and save the world. I'm not really that hung up on it. I can easily afford the gas I burn...and will continue to do so while it pleases me. My current car actually gets quite good mileage for me...about 23 city driving. My last one, a small german sports car I lost to the hurricane, got 10 mpg on a GOOD day....but, those were the most FUN 10 mpg you could get.
My cars I drive are pretty much all high performance cars. They can handle speed, turns and braking better than most cars out there. And when I posted above and said driving according to the conditions of the road...that also meant traffic condiditons too 'asshole'...No, I don't usually go 80 mph in heavy traffic...but, if it is light with little or no traffic, and for instance on the hwy with no one for miles...I'll crank it up to over 100mph....no problem.
So, I'll argue that driving the speed that is safe for the current conditions is not dangerous despite it being higher than posted limits. But, if you're hung up on energy conservation...well, I'm guilty of not doing my part, and I really don't care. I've owned nothing in my life but 2 seat sports cars (german one was technically a 4 seater, but, no one could really sit in the back)...and I buy and drive them because they are performance vehicles, and I take them out and enjoy them every day I drive.
I feel sorry for those like you that are so timid and worried about safety that you never get out and live, and get a little bit of an adrenaline rush. At least when I die...I can know that I enjoyed life closer to the max that many like you apparently.
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.........
I don't drive but I've been in a Merc or two, and IMO the Honda Accord Euro shits all over them.
You mention Dell, but did you even look?
XPS M1330 is $1109 when configured the same as the macbook air
excepting that you don't even have the option to select a harddrive as bad as the macbook, you get an internal optical drive, more than 1 usb port, firewire, headphone/microphone plugs, ethernet, built in webcam, a removable battery, an option to upgrade the battery,
No it is not as thin, but you actually get a computer.