THIS ACTUALLY HAPPENED TO ME! Sorry for shouting... I'm just glad I'm not crazy.
I really do believe that Best Buy is in the wrong here. Anecdotal evidence:
I was buying Firefly (the series) and the in-store price was $44.95. Over the phone my friend said he had checked the website and it was $22 or so there. Not to be overcharged, I told the checkout clerk. "Oh, you'll have to talk to customer service, I can't check the website from here" she says. So I stood in line for 20 minutes while trying to look up the price on my Treo. That failed because their website apparently needs to meet my friend Mr. Web Standards (And it was slow... and the search wants to use lots of JS voodoo). I finally looked up and realized the line hadn't moved at all and the shish-ca-bobs at the intended firefly party were getting cold.
Not one to give up easily, I thought of trying one of the myriad of brand new computers. After taking the necessary precautions (anti-static gloves) as Vista had just been released (I did not want to be infected by the evil) I pulled up IE7 which informed me that it had no internet connection. I didn't persist in investigating because, well, Vista; and I realized that there wasn't any printers connected anyway.
But then, I found a kiosk, with a printer, and apparently an internet connection. I hit the button marked "look up prices online" or something to that effect and it took me to what looked like--I mean exactly like--the Best Buy website where it displayed the $44.95 price. Well, I figured my friend had accidentally pulled up the page for Serenity so I anted up. Sure enough, when I checked for my self, I could have payed half as much for them to ship it to me.
Yeah... I should have gone back for a refund. But it was Firefly.
Quite well thank you very much.
Actually, Opera works exactly as it does in Win or Linux (I use it on all 3). the side bar should be a standard cocoa object to match the rest of the Mac apps and when you close a window using the red "ball" it doesn't save tabs which is irritating. However it does save them when you hit CMD-Q. It runs fast although it takes a while to start up (that's probably because i have about 15 tabs open though).
If you think religion (I presume you are mostly thinking about Christianity) would collapse over the discovery of extraterrestrial life, perhaps you don't know as much about it as you think you do. I would hope you would study it (it has had a great impact on terrestrial life after all) before you hurl broad insults.
Case in point: no less than apologist C.S. Lewis believed in life on other worlds. He was so fascinated by the idea he wrote a science fiction trilogy.
Good point about water though, many people don't realize how unique and special it is.
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As any marketing expert at Google or eBay or Coke can tell you, half of anyone's marketing budget is wasted. The trouble is figuring out which half.
Anybody got this to run on WINE?
THIS ACTUALLY HAPPENED TO ME!
Sorry for shouting... I'm just glad I'm not crazy.
I really do believe that Best Buy is in the wrong here. Anecdotal evidence:
I was buying Firefly (the series) and the in-store price was $44.95. Over the phone my friend said he had checked the website and it was $22 or so there. Not to be overcharged, I told the checkout clerk. "Oh, you'll have to talk to customer service, I can't check the website from here" she says. So I stood in line for 20 minutes while trying to look up the price on my Treo. That failed because their website apparently needs to meet my friend Mr. Web Standards (And it was slow... and the search wants to use lots of JS voodoo). I finally looked up and realized the line hadn't moved at all and the shish-ca-bobs at the intended firefly party were getting cold.
Not one to give up easily, I thought of trying one of the myriad of brand new computers. After taking the necessary precautions (anti-static gloves) as Vista had just been released (I did not want to be infected by the evil) I pulled up IE7 which informed me that it had no internet connection. I didn't persist in investigating because, well, Vista; and I realized that there wasn't any printers connected anyway.
But then, I found a kiosk, with a printer, and apparently an internet connection. I hit the button marked "look up prices online" or something to that effect and it took me to what looked like--I mean exactly like--the Best Buy website where it displayed the $44.95 price. Well, I figured my friend had accidentally pulled up the page for Serenity so I anted up. Sure enough, when I checked for my self, I could have payed half as much for them to ship it to me.
Yeah... I should have gone back for a refund. But it was Firefly.
hmm, how 'bout the lawyers... that way everybody (else) wins!
Quite well thank you very much. Actually, Opera works exactly as it does in Win or Linux (I use it on all 3). the side bar should be a standard cocoa object to match the rest of the Mac apps and when you close a window using the red "ball" it doesn't save tabs which is irritating. However it does save them when you hit CMD-Q. It runs fast although it takes a while to start up (that's probably because i have about 15 tabs open though).
If you think religion (I presume you are mostly thinking about Christianity) would collapse over the discovery of extraterrestrial life, perhaps you don't know as much about it as you think you do. I would hope you would study it (it has had a great impact on terrestrial life after all) before you hurl broad insults. Case in point: no less than apologist C.S. Lewis believed in life on other worlds. He was so fascinated by the idea he wrote a science fiction trilogy. Good point about water though, many people don't realize how unique and special it is.
I hate to say this, but it really sounds like a noisy power supply. I mean it sounds like harmonics of 60 cycles.