I already have a Nano, and would like to upgrade to iTouch, but only if/when it has a camera. How difficult could this be? (iTouch + Camera = iPhone - phone, right?)
It seems that is Apple making consumers choose between running a huge a library of applications and games, or having a camcorder/pedometer?
Whatever.
The characters have un-American, un-pronounceable names.
The actors are normal-looking, middle-aged people.
The special effects take a backseat to everything else.
I suppose Peter Jackson's name was the only thing that kept this from being laughed out of Hollywood.
'District 9' and 'Moon' are the best sci-fi movies I've seen in awhile.
Had to teach progamming class at a tire plant. Our classroom was over the vulcanizing oven, so not only was it hot, but smelled of burnt rubber and sulphur. Just a little a taste of hell I never want to experience again.
My daughter is off to college next year. In checking the school's suggested configuration for a laptop computer, I was pleasantly surprised that her current refurbed-and-outdated-yet-still-works-fine Dell Inspiron more than meets the bill.
Meanwhile (w/graduation less than 90 days away), I keep hearing "all my friends are getting Macs for college". Most college students are going to twitter, facebook, download music, and basically do stuff that could be done on a netbook. A Mac is overkill, but oh-so hip and trendy.
What will my daughter be taking? A well-equipped mid-range dual-core HP widescreen laptop that is magnitudes more powerful than her current laptop and the school's requirements. Heck, I even ordered a custom skin for it (using one of my photos and http://schtickers.com/ which is great by the way!) and the price? less than $550 with tax, s&h and everything else, including the skin (and no rebates to deal with either).
Enterprise management tools -- not bundling. Lots of IT admins and managers I speak with would love to make Firefox (or something other than IE) their enterprise browser, but they can't unless they have a good way of managing in the enterprise. Firefox's lack of enterprise management tools is a glaring strike against what is otherwise a far superior product compared to IE.
Never mind science. If the electorate as a whole had any reasonable intelligence, most of the candidates' election strategies and schemes wouldn't work.
I mean these are the same voters who blindly forward every email without checking it out first, can't keep their VCR's from blinking 12:00, and need TV commercials to explain what's happening when analog TV goes away next year.
I've used POP access in Thunderbird to get my Gmail (from multiple Gmail accounts) and have never had this happen. Don't recall it happening with my old ISP's either. Would be a real bitch too, because I never delete any messages from my GMail account online.
Could this be related to the particular Mail (POP) Server? Maybe it's occasionally touching the messages in some way that client thinks they haven't been downloaded before?
You've hit the nail on the head. While DRM ostensibly promoted as piracy prevention - it's really about making the customer pay for the same piece of entertainment as many times as possible.
"Most people would not find it useful to hear that "there will be probably be thunder on Wednesday if it remains hot enough, but if it cools down on Tuesday then the thunderstorm will be off to the north somewhere"
Actually, I would find that kind of forecast helpful, but it certainly doesn't make a nice TV soundbites does it?
Just like when I purchase something on the internet, I check a variety of websites to see what the general consensus is, and then if I need more information, I always relay on the good old National Weather Service page (it is indeed nice that they don't serve up a lot of ads, but if you're using Firefox w/AdBlock, who cares).
I find the most useful link on the NWS page, is the 'Forecast Discussion' (found on the forecast page for what ever region's forecast you're viewing). It provides the exact kind of statements you put in your post. The terminology and abbreviations can be a little much sometimes, but you can still get the gist of what they're saying. The forecast discussion wouldn't be useful if you're trying to plan more than a day or so out -- I find it's best to use this page the day before or the day of your planned activity.
I've installed Firefox on dozens of friends and neighbors computers, and except for one, nobody has been reinfected with spyware, adware, and virii. The one exception was a lady who just couldn't stop clicking the blue 'e'.
Most of these aren't technologically sophisticated and when it comes to browsing, not very vigilant -- furthermore, I've not had a single complaint from anyone I've switched. No complaints about incompatible sites either.
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I already have a Nano, and would like to upgrade to iTouch, but only if/when it has a camera. How difficult could this be? (iTouch + Camera = iPhone - phone, right?) It seems that is Apple making consumers choose between running a huge a library of applications and games, or having a camcorder/pedometer? Whatever.
I suppose Peter Jackson's name was the only thing that kept this from being laughed out of Hollywood. 'District 9' and 'Moon' are the best sci-fi movies I've seen in awhile.
Had to teach progamming class at a tire plant. Our classroom was over the vulcanizing oven, so not only was it hot, but smelled of burnt rubber and sulphur. Just a little a taste of hell I never want to experience again.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13526_3-10214556-27.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-5 A quick view of the day's top selling tracks reveals several at $1.29 (which earlier today were under a dollar)
My daughter is off to college next year. In checking the school's suggested configuration for a laptop computer, I was pleasantly surprised that her current refurbed-and-outdated-yet-still-works-fine Dell Inspiron more than meets the bill. Meanwhile (w/graduation less than 90 days away), I keep hearing "all my friends are getting Macs for college". Most college students are going to twitter, facebook, download music, and basically do stuff that could be done on a netbook. A Mac is overkill, but oh-so hip and trendy. What will my daughter be taking? A well-equipped mid-range dual-core HP widescreen laptop that is magnitudes more powerful than her current laptop and the school's requirements. Heck, I even ordered a custom skin for it (using one of my photos and http://schtickers.com/ which is great by the way!) and the price? less than $550 with tax, s&h and everything else, including the skin (and no rebates to deal with either).
Enterprise management tools -- not bundling. Lots of IT admins and managers I speak with would love to make Firefox (or something other than IE) their enterprise browser, but they can't unless they have a good way of managing in the enterprise. Firefox's lack of enterprise management tools is a glaring strike against what is otherwise a far superior product compared to IE.
Never mind science. If the electorate as a whole had any reasonable intelligence, most of the candidates' election strategies and schemes wouldn't work. I mean these are the same voters who blindly forward every email without checking it out first, can't keep their VCR's from blinking 12:00, and need TV commercials to explain what's happening when analog TV goes away next year.
I've used POP access in Thunderbird to get my Gmail (from multiple Gmail accounts) and have never had this happen. Don't recall it happening with my old ISP's either. Would be a real bitch too, because I never delete any messages from my GMail account online. Could this be related to the particular Mail (POP) Server? Maybe it's occasionally touching the messages in some way that client thinks they haven't been downloaded before?
You've hit the nail on the head. While DRM ostensibly promoted as piracy prevention - it's really about making the customer pay for the same piece of entertainment as many times as possible.
Perhaps we would have seen Penny Marshall play Chewbacca, with a cursive 'L' emblazoned on that furry chest.
And then re-brand/market it as a pharmaceutical (as was done with Warfarin - known commercially as Coumadin)
Actually, I would find that kind of forecast helpful, but it certainly doesn't make a nice TV soundbites does it?
Just like when I purchase something on the internet, I check a variety of websites to see what the general consensus is, and then if I need more information, I always relay on the good old National Weather Service page (it is indeed nice that they don't serve up a lot of ads, but if you're using Firefox w/AdBlock, who cares).
I find the most useful link on the NWS page, is the 'Forecast Discussion' (found on the forecast page for what ever region's forecast you're viewing). It provides the exact kind of statements you put in your post. The terminology and abbreviations can be a little much sometimes, but you can still get the gist of what they're saying. The forecast discussion wouldn't be useful if you're trying to plan more than a day or so out -- I find it's best to use this page the day before or the day of your planned activity.
Not necessarily. I develop Blackberry apps and they can be installed via USB or via the device's browser.
In the past the scientific commmunity had consensus that...
I've installed Firefox on dozens of friends and neighbors computers, and except for one, nobody has been reinfected with spyware, adware, and virii. The one exception was a lady who just couldn't stop clicking the blue 'e'. Most of these aren't technologically sophisticated and when it comes to browsing, not very vigilant -- furthermore, I've not had a single complaint from anyone I've switched. No complaints about incompatible sites either.