Dude, Look at them again at apple.com. $2499 for the 400MHz G3, with 64 RAM, 6Gig HD, DVD, AGP graphics, FireWire, USB, 56K modem AND 10/100 Enet built-in?!?
Compare that with any IBM StinkPad, Dell Dimentia, Compaq Armadillo or Gateway So-Low... comparably equipped (none of them comes close) and the Apple is way lower!
Granted, if you buy sucky no-name clone laptop for $1299, it's cheaper. But you ain't getting no 400MHz G3 contender, that's for sure...
Come on, you got $2500 burning a hole in your pocket... go for it!!
Pir8ed MP3s have little or no impact on musicians. Every musician that I listen to (and I know there are some out there who aren't) are artists. They produce the music as expressions of themselves, for the enjoyment of the people; for the betterment of society.
Musicians make very little money on music sales; their money comes from merchandizing, endorsements and concert appearances. They can continue to make money that way, uninterupted, even with MP3s of every song available freely everywhere.
The RIAA, on the other hand, is not nearly so altruistic on the whole as the artists are. They are big businesses with "reps" who are nearly as rich (or even more rich) than the musicians. They make $5-$7 off of each CD, and probably have the interests of retailers in their pocket, who also make $4-6$ per CD.
Think about this: what would happen if all that music in Best Buy were suddenly free on the Net? Granted, most people don't have portable/car/home MP3 players yet, but over time, the market would evolve, concentrating on sales of the players, not the media.
That's where I would like to see things o, but I'm a technocrat that way...
I'd just like to remind everyone that while it IS, obviously, the year 2000, with all the inherent problems that may/may not cause, it is NOT the new millenium. So can we, as supposedly intelligent people, stop with the propagation of all this "first * of the millennium" crud.
Gee, that gives you a whole 'nother year to learn how to spell MILLENNIUM!:) Yay!
Son, you gotta get with the spell checker. It's your friend. This is about the sixth movie review in the last year that you spelled character as "charachter." One H, that's it.
Other than that, nice review... look forward to seeing the movie.
>...that Disney has for once made a sequel that >didn't just shamelessly extract money from the >parents who were unlucky enough to have children >obsessed with the originals.
That's because Disney didn't make it; Pixar did.;)
Long live Steve Jobs, acid-dropping (technology+humanity) visionary!
PS- Anyone got a time machine? I have money now, and I want to go back to December 1997 when I was poor and Apple was at $12.75 a share. It's between $95-100 now.:P
The reason your CD gets hot in your car stereo is because they are cramming in a hundred or so watts of power amplification in with the CD mechanism, just to power the speakers. Try it out on a PC with a slot-load CD/DVD drive, it's cool, man.
You said "My question is: why haven't these people figured it out yet that the "13 year old kids" they talk to on IRC about sex are NOT 13 year old kids."
The truth is, there are young kids out there online. Two examples:
Few months ago, a local band teacher (Cleveland, Ohio, male, was caught in a dark alley, in his car, engaged in "inappropriate behavior" with a 15-year old maile from another city. They met online.
I knew TWO people IRL who were 15-17 years old (this was about 6 years ago) who met 13-year old girls (I met them, too) online and engaged in "sexual behavior."
The fact is, there is plenty of unsupervised, sexually-experience teenaged youth online. It's not a complete surprise that people are still fooled by FBI agents. The agents must be getting better at pretending. I'm all for it; even if it gets kicked out of court as entrapment, hopefully someone will end up with mental help as a result.
If you want it out of there, I have a growing room full of Apple stuff. Send me what your asking price is for some of it, and I'll let you know if I'll bite.:)
Pardon me, So, not available in shops, and not available unless you buy a POS G4. I just have a hard time with someone referring to a G4 as a Piece Of Sh!t. These machines have been demod and hyped for less than 48 hours, and you're already convinced that their pieces of sh!t? What a limited mind you must have. Whether you like Apple or not, I think they have at least earned open-mindedness. I don't think anyone should refer to any product as a piece of sh!t until they've used it themselves. If a G4 doesn't meet your needs, fine. But please don't make uninformed judgements based on personal whims.
I submit (based on my own, meandering experience) that the USPS is handling more mail than ever. This is based on 3 things:
1) I got the eBay bug BIG about 6 months ago, and now I not only buy stuff, but I sell stuff that I would ordinarily sell via "garage sale." And every single transaction, save 1, I have sent/had delivered via USPS. One was UPS, but only because it was a very expensive item and the seller stipulated it had to be done that way. This has created situations like me getting four pieces of my MP3-mobile in my US Mail in one day! First-class postage is just not matched in price/performance by UPS/FedEx/Airborne Express/DHL/etc.
2) I only write one check every month, for my rent because my landlord company is tech-stupid. Other than that, every single bill I pay (about 15 a month) is done electronically. How is this relevent? Well, when I pay electronically, my bank still does paperwork tranactions via mail with the companies I pay, and all those companies continue to send me statements (and useless bundled ads for miscellaneous crap.)
3) I still get roughtly 20 pieces of "junk mail" in my box a week... and I'm fairly sure that some of these people have gotten my address from Net-based vendors!
Yes, the USPS is alive and well. As long as the customers keep their expectations reasonable... unlike the woman who expected Priority Mail to maek it overnight halfway across the country with her son's medication in it. DUH! Quit holding up the rest of us in line with your inability to read the sign that says, "Most packages in 2-3 days." FWIW, my only complaint is that this CAN and DOES mean 8 days to towns like Laramie, Wyoming.:)
Is this * $280 million US consumer dollars, or * $280 million US government contract bid dollars?
Cuz if it's the latter, don't forget that you have to cover the administrative costs of putting the contract up for bid; costs of parts, labor, and "reasonable" profit to the contractor; costs of a lengthy service contract that is also lucrative to the service organization; cost of integration into the existing systems on site; cost of training personnel to use such a system... oh yes, and the padded-in $100 million to fund classified projects at various locations, including Area 51.
Sounds like $280 million dollars is a steal for such a box!!;D
"And by the way, being an engineer at HP, I take exception to the movie's portrayal of an HP manager when Woz to get approved to sell the Apple I. We wouldn't be caught dead in a suit and tie, and no one I know has an actual office with a door. From engineer to division manager, we all have cubicles. "
You goof, this was 23 years ago. HP was hardcore into business machines, competing with the likes of IBM. And at that point in time, it WAS unthinkable that a "personal computer" (which meant a mainframe or MAYBE a giant "Mini-computer") would sell off the shelf to consumers. That was the beauty of the two Steves-- they saw the possibilities.
Just to clear up some of the confusion about Billy G's wealth...
There are several websites out there (too lazy to dig up a URL) that track an "estimated minute-to-minute value" of Bill's Worth.
His "personal" wealth has been hovering in the 120 billion dollar range lately. That number, to me, is just staggering, especially given that he's such an unscrupulous jerk. Of course, had I not the social inclinations that I have now, I may have ended up a sick sadistic nerd bent on world domination myself.
That 120 billion dollars probably "only" includes a few billion in liquid assets, and maybe 10 billion more in "other" investments. The rest is wholly his Microsoft holdings and options, which is why the number can fluctuate so much. It's to the point where if MS stock goes down a point, Billy can "lose" a billion dollars. Then it's up two points the next day, so he's "made" two billion dollars. It's like monopoly money, just like the rets of the stock market. It's not yours until you pull it out of the market and pay your 40% to the government. Then, it's liquid, but less volitile.
Bill's child is gonna be one seriously eligible bachelorette some day; she's an heiress the likes of which have not been seen since the days of the steel magnates!
While I hestitate to say I can empathize for with the motivations of the killers in Colorado, I can certainly mirror everyone else's assertion that we were all outcasts. Even the "popular" kids back then are standing up now and saying they felt "left out" too. Boo hoo.
What I want to say is that my self-awareness saved me. I went to a public school in a very very sick (but totally in denial) suburb on the near east side of Cleveland. I was beat up and ridiculed and taunted... and had the same feelings that everyone else here is sharing. The reason I never broke, either by killing myself or bombing the school, wasn't the fact that I had sympathetic parents (they were, I just didn't believe them at the time), and it wasn't 'cuz someone reached out for me. It was because I could externalize my ID to watch the situation from the outside, and understand that the cretins that were perpetrating the viciousness, as well as the "administrators" who perpetuated it, were totally and completely irrelevent to my life. The person I wanted to be was me... meaning my only role model was a vision of what I was capable of.
With a helping of common sense, I kept up with my technology learning and quit college as soon as I could. And I went out into the world, married someone who makes me happy and who appreciates having someone around who is able to do almost anything she can't do, and self-confidenced myself into a job I was far from qualified for on paper. I got here by watching things from fifty feet overhead, and understanding what makes people tick.
It's REALLY REALLY easy... with a little bit of effort. People still say things about me behind my back, but their petty gossip about my weight or teh way my wife looks is only indicitive of their small-mindedness. I can still accomplish anything I want to. I'm 23, and I am treated like a peer to the 35-50 year olds I work with, and I appreciate that respect. I never waste my time worrying about what happened to the guys who flung lacrosse balls at my back when I tried out for the team in HS.
It's all about self-awareness people. Being aware of your own mind, your own person, and everything around you. Being able to sort out what relevent and ignore the rest. Every once in a while, some grunt is going to try to assert himself as though he's worth your time; just come up with a creative way to insult him without him pummeling you in response, and you'll be fine.
Uhh, those ships have some pretty serious equipment on board... stuff that makes sending and receiving standard eMial seem like kid games. FWIW, I sent and received several electronic mails from my brother the Marine while he was on a float out to the Mediteranean. I wonder what their bandwidth's like... *smirk*
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>If only the PowerBooks weren't so expensive...
Dude, Look at them again at apple.com. $2499 for the 400MHz G3, with 64 RAM, 6Gig HD, DVD, AGP graphics, FireWire, USB, 56K modem AND 10/100 Enet built-in?!?
Compare that with any IBM StinkPad, Dell Dimentia, Compaq Armadillo or Gateway So-Low... comparably equipped (none of them comes close) and the Apple is way lower!
Granted, if you buy sucky no-name clone laptop for $1299, it's cheaper. But you ain't getting no 400MHz G3 contender, that's for sure...
Come on, you got $2500 burning a hole in your pocket... go for it!!
Here's my take.
Pir8ed MP3s have little or no impact on musicians. Every musician that I listen to (and I know there are some out there who aren't) are artists. They produce the music as expressions of themselves, for the enjoyment of the people; for the betterment of society.
Musicians make very little money on music sales; their money comes from merchandizing, endorsements and concert appearances. They can continue to make money that way, uninterupted, even with MP3s of every song available freely everywhere.
The RIAA, on the other hand, is not nearly so altruistic on the whole as the artists are. They are big businesses with "reps" who are nearly as rich (or even more rich) than the musicians. They make $5-$7 off of each CD, and probably have the interests of retailers in their pocket, who also make $4-6$ per CD.
Think about this: what would happen if all that music in Best Buy were suddenly free on the Net? Granted, most people don't have portable/car/home MP3 players yet, but over time, the market would evolve, concentrating on sales of the players, not the media.
That's where I would like to see things o, but I'm a technocrat that way...
Gee, that gives you a whole 'nother year to learn how to spell MILLENNIUM! :) Yay!
/set trollmode off
;D
Son, you gotta get with the spell checker. It's your friend. This is about the sixth movie review in the last year that you spelled character as "charachter." One H, that's it.
Other than that, nice review... look forward to seeing the movie.
>...that Disney has for once made a sequel that >didn't just shamelessly extract money from the >parents who were unlucky enough to have children >obsessed with the originals.
;)
:P
That's because Disney didn't make it; Pixar did.
Long live Steve Jobs, acid-dropping (technology+humanity) visionary!
PS- Anyone got a time machine? I have money now, and I want to go back to December 1997 when I was poor and Apple was at $12.75 a share. It's between $95-100 now.
If my wife can figure out how to get MacOS -> Linux on our iMac, it's set.
(In case you couldn't tell, I use the Yodification method of encryption. I find it useful for confusing 85% of the people I live near. :)
Hmm, yes, Interetsing it is...
*Yodify*
The reason your CD gets hot in your car stereo is because they are cramming in a hundred or so watts of power amplification in with the CD mechanism, just to power the speakers. Try it out on a PC with a slot-load CD/DVD drive, it's cool, man.
I should have previewed that, I REALLY mistyped a few things. :)
You said "My question is: why haven't these people figured it out yet that the "13 year old kids" they talk to on IRC about sex are NOT 13 year old kids."
The truth is, there are young kids out there online. Two examples:
Few months ago, a local band teacher (Cleveland, Ohio, male, was caught in a dark alley, in his car, engaged in "inappropriate behavior" with a 15-year old maile from another city. They met online.
I knew TWO people IRL who were 15-17 years old (this was about 6 years ago) who met 13-year old girls (I met them, too) online and engaged in "sexual behavior."
The fact is, there is plenty of unsupervised, sexually-experience teenaged youth online. It's not a complete surprise that people are still fooled by FBI agents. The agents must be getting better at pretending. I'm all for it; even if it gets kicked out of court as entrapment, hopefully someone will end up with mental help as a result.
If you think THAT'S bad, talk to Honda about their special edition SUV in Japan, the Honda CRV-EX. (Cervix?)
:)
I find it even funnier, personally, that the new German sportscar from Audi is called the Audi TT.
How many American CPAs are going to buy a car called the AUDITT?
-RT
If you want it out of there, I have a growing room full of Apple stuff. Send me what your asking price is for some of it, and I'll let you know if I'll bite. :)
Pardon me, So, not available in shops, and not available unless you buy a POS G4. I just have a hard time with someone referring to a G4 as a Piece Of Sh!t. These machines have been demod and hyped for less than 48 hours, and you're already convinced that their pieces of sh!t? What a limited mind you must have. Whether you like Apple or not, I think they have at least earned open-mindedness. I don't think anyone should refer to any product as a piece of sh!t until they've used it themselves. If a G4 doesn't meet your needs, fine. But please don't make uninformed judgements based on personal whims.
I submit (based on my own, meandering experience) that the USPS is handling more mail than ever. This is based on 3 things:
:)
1) I got the eBay bug BIG about 6 months ago, and now I not only buy stuff, but I sell stuff that I would ordinarily sell via "garage sale." And every single transaction, save 1, I have sent/had delivered via USPS. One was UPS, but only because it was a very expensive item and the seller stipulated it had to be done that way. This has created situations like me getting four pieces of my MP3-mobile in my US Mail in one day! First-class postage is just not matched in price/performance by UPS/FedEx/Airborne Express/DHL/etc.
2) I only write one check every month, for my rent because my landlord company is tech-stupid. Other than that, every single bill I pay (about 15 a month) is done electronically. How is this relevent? Well, when I pay electronically, my bank still does paperwork tranactions via mail with the companies I pay, and all those companies continue to send me statements (and useless bundled ads for miscellaneous crap.)
3) I still get roughtly 20 pieces of "junk mail" in my box a week... and I'm fairly sure that some of these people have gotten my address from Net-based vendors!
Yes, the USPS is alive and well. As long as the customers keep their expectations reasonable... unlike the woman who expected Priority Mail to maek it overnight halfway across the country with her son's medication in it. DUH! Quit holding up the rest of us in line with your inability to read the sign that says, "Most packages in 2-3 days." FWIW, my only complaint is that this CAN and DOES mean 8 days to towns like Laramie, Wyoming.
Is this
;D
* $280 million US consumer dollars, or
* $280 million US government contract bid dollars?
Cuz if it's the latter, don't forget that you have to cover the administrative costs of putting the contract up for bid; costs of parts, labor, and "reasonable" profit to the contractor; costs of a lengthy service contract that is also lucrative to the service organization; cost of integration into the existing systems on site; cost of training personnel to use such a system... oh yes, and the padded-in $100 million to fund classified projects at various locations, including Area 51.
Sounds like $280 million dollars is a steal for such a box!!
Hey, did anyone ever tell you guys that you sound eerily like the audio half of MST3K?
Makes me want to play "Attack of the Killer Dorito Inspectors" as video along with your voice.
"And by the way, being an engineer at HP, I take exception to the movie's portrayal of an HP manager when Woz to get approved to sell the Apple I. We wouldn't be caught dead in a suit and tie, and no one I know has an actual office with a door. From engineer to division manager, we all have cubicles. "
You goof, this was 23 years ago. HP was hardcore into business machines, competing with the likes of IBM. And at that point in time, it WAS unthinkable that a "personal computer" (which meant a mainframe or MAYBE a giant "Mini-computer") would sell off the shelf to consumers. That was the beauty of the two Steves-- they saw the possibilities.
Just to clear up some of the confusion about Billy G's wealth...
There are several websites out there (too lazy to dig up a URL) that track an "estimated minute-to-minute value" of Bill's Worth.
His "personal" wealth has been hovering in the 120 billion dollar range lately. That number, to me, is just staggering, especially given that he's such an unscrupulous jerk. Of course, had I not the social inclinations that I have now, I may have ended up a sick sadistic nerd bent on world domination myself.
That 120 billion dollars probably "only" includes a few billion in liquid assets, and maybe 10 billion more in "other" investments. The rest is wholly his Microsoft holdings and options, which is why the number can fluctuate so much. It's to the point where if MS stock goes down a point, Billy can "lose" a billion dollars. Then it's up two points the next day, so he's "made" two billion dollars. It's like monopoly money, just like the rets of the stock market. It's not yours until you pull it out of the market and pay your 40% to the government. Then, it's liquid, but less volitile.
Bill's child is gonna be one seriously eligible bachelorette some day; she's an heiress the likes of which have not been seen since the days of the steel magnates!
-----
While I hestitate to say I can empathize for with the motivations of the killers in Colorado, I can certainly mirror everyone else's assertion that we were all outcasts. Even the "popular" kids back then are standing up now and saying they felt "left out" too. Boo hoo.
:)
What I want to say is that my self-awareness saved me. I went to a public school in a very very sick (but totally in denial) suburb on the near east side of Cleveland. I was beat up and ridiculed and taunted... and had the same feelings that everyone else here is sharing. The reason I never broke, either by killing myself or bombing the school, wasn't the fact that I had sympathetic parents (they were, I just didn't believe them at the time), and it wasn't 'cuz someone reached out for me. It was because I could externalize my ID to watch the situation from the outside, and understand that the cretins that were perpetrating the viciousness, as well as the "administrators" who perpetuated it, were totally and completely irrelevent to my life. The person I wanted to be was me... meaning my only role model was a vision of what I was capable of.
With a helping of common sense, I kept up with my technology learning and quit college as soon as I could. And I went out into the world, married someone who makes me happy and who appreciates having someone around who is able to do almost anything she can't do, and self-confidenced myself into a job I was far from qualified for on paper. I got here by watching things from fifty feet overhead, and understanding what makes people tick.
It's REALLY REALLY easy... with a little bit of effort. People still say things about me behind my back, but their petty gossip about my weight or teh way my wife looks is only indicitive of their small-mindedness. I can still accomplish anything I want to. I'm 23, and I am treated like a peer to the 35-50 year olds I work with, and I appreciate that respect. I never waste my time worrying about what happened to the guys who flung lacrosse balls at my back when I tried out for the team in HS.
It's all about self-awareness people. Being aware of your own mind, your own person, and everything around you. Being able to sort out what relevent and ignore the rest. Every once in a while, some grunt is going to try to assert himself as though he's worth your time; just come up with a creative way to insult him without him pummeling you in response, and you'll be fine.
Have A Nice Day!
First Post Bastard :)
No seriously though; how can Toshiba do this without offering a Non-Windows laptop model separately (for less money)?!?
Uhh, those ships have some pretty serious equipment on board... stuff that makes sending and receiving standard eMial seem like kid games. FWIW, I sent and received several electronic mails from my brother the Marine while he was on a float out to the Mediteranean. I wonder what their bandwidth's like... *smirk*