No, it really hasn't. There are a few trolls here who work for the riaa or microsoft, and they jump into any discussion like this with their tired attempts to equate copying with stealing.
There may be a few people here who actually drank the riaa kool-aid, but most of the people telling you information doesn't want to be free are being paid to do so.
Hmmm... I think the mini is actually the first non-portable Mac to ship without a mouse. The keyboard was optional back in the early ADB years, I don't think it was standard for an ADB Mac until the AppleDesign keyboard came out, but I really don't remember anything else not having a mouse.
This price is why you should patronize your local dealer. Most dealers charge by the repair, not a fixed rate, and the logic boards for iBooks were less than that, by quite a bit.
Now, with the repair extension, it makes more sense to send it back to Apple yourself, because the dealers can't get the logic boards for the iBooks covered by the repair extension.
But for the iBook G4, take it to your local dealer - and buy the AppleCare. $249 is cheaper than most iBook repairs.
Actually, Apple sets a minimum advertised price, dealers can lose their authorization for advertising a price below that. Everybody is advertising at that price, so no dealer can as a practical matter sell at a higher price. So, it is, in effect a fixed price for any publicly displayed advertising.
Somehow, Amazon gets away with ignoring it.
They also have a very high wholesale price that they charge most dealers, so most dealers are not able to give any discounts below the minimum advertised price.
And now, they've started a price matching campaign in case any dealer does privately offer a lower price to a customer. They have been known to use service records to contact the dealer's customers and offer them discounts.
Top it off with retailers not being able to get products until all of their own stores are fully stocked, and you get the picture.
Customers understandably have a great deal of frustration when the dealer has no minis to sell, doesn't know when they will get any, and hasn't even seen one yet, and their friends who ordered direct from Apple already have their computers.
Lead leaching from your plumbing is apparently very unlikely, unless your pipes are lead. The small amount of lead solder that used to be used in copper plumbing scales over in a few years, and lead doesn't escape into your water.
The public drinking water in the US is almost always perfectly safe to drink right out of the tap.
The only reason for filtering is taste. As far as I'm concerned, the chlorine is doing a wonderful job of keeping the water bacteria free on the way to me. I'd just rather not taste it in the water, so I filter it out on my end. The water here also has a few other non-harmful minerals in it, but they also taste pretty nasty, so I'd rather filter them out, too.
Sounds like privatization killed it. As a government entity, last mile can be done without regard for any profit, but as soon as you privitize a natural monopoly, innovation stops.
Now, the government may or may not do better, but at least there's a chance.
If you've got a judgement, and you know where a corporation keeps its bank accounts (not hard to find one account somewhere, really) you can get a garnishment.
With that, the bank just hands over your judgement.
It's a constitutional issue because Apple is asking the government to force the press to reveal the source.
Apple has the right to ask ThinkSecret for the source. ThinkSecret has the right to tell Apple to get stuffed. The government, under the protections granted the press by the First Amendment, does not have the right to force ThinkSecret to tell Apple anything.
So, Apple has the right to sue someone who has broken their NDA. Apple does not have the right to obtain that information through government coercion of ThinkSecret, and the trade secret laws that give the government that power are unconstitutional, inasmuch as they are an abridgement of the freedom of the press.
Nobody makes a phone big enough for me anymore. i want a phone that extends from my ear to my mouth, and can rest comfortably on my shoulder. I'm not interested in putting it in my pocket, I'll clip it to my belt, thanks. But I'm sick of small telephones.
Oh, and one more little feature that I want - GOOD VOICE QUALITY. I can almost live without big for that one.
Hmm... I think I might even sue the lock manufacturer. If I've bought a new lock that's been advertised to keep the burglar out, and he goes in by breaking the lock, I've even got a case.
Now, if I buy a lock that is known to be defective, I don't have a case - I should have known better.
But I can still be annoyed that the lock manufacturer makes garbage locks.
Or I can just use another company's locks. That's the problem with Microsoft, they have so much of the market that many people are stuck using their locks, even when they know they're garbage. Me, I'll stick with Macintosh and Linux.
They've got the rest of it, but they seem to be pretty competent at it.
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ahh, to be able to mod things funny.
I wasn't in favor of Jobs coming back. I would much rather Woz were capable of taking over management functions - but he's an engineer, and only wants to be an engineer.
So no, I'm not a Jobs fan. I'm a Woz fan, and I'll be unapologetic about that, but I've been pleasantly surprised that Jobs hasn't fucked everything up a second time.
well, I'm only paying about 6.3 cents per kilowatt/hour for electricity. I think the government is doing a pretty good job of not being the most costly way of getting things done.
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No, it really hasn't. There are a few trolls here who work for the riaa or microsoft, and they jump into any discussion like this with their tired attempts to equate copying with stealing.
There may be a few people here who actually drank the riaa kool-aid, but most of the people telling you information doesn't want to be free are being paid to do so.
Or even better, acknoledge that it's just free speech, and it isn't dangerous in a free society.
Leave the kids alone. Sticks and stones, and all.
Which, if you really think about it, is no longer incorrect today, as it is the only usage of the terms.
After all, even the page you referenced says "There is no official definition of the first, second, and the third world."
So, third world is effectively now an economic designation, and no longer has anything to do with the cold war.
Hmmm... I think the mini is actually the first non-portable Mac to ship without a mouse. The keyboard was optional back in the early ADB years, I don't think it was standard for an ADB Mac until the AppleDesign keyboard came out, but I really don't remember anything else not having a mouse.
Well, the high-cost areas for everything else generally have better prices for broadband.
Where I am, Comcast is $57.95/month for their base package if you don't also get cable tv from them.
It's actually cheaper if you get their basic cable package (which is really just local channels on a wire.) That's $52.90.
I think their service is 3 megabit down/256k up here.
I'm paying ~$75 a month for 1.5 down/256 up ADSL with 5 useable static IPs, and no blocked ports or hassles for running servers.
This price is why you should patronize your local dealer. Most dealers charge by the repair, not a fixed rate, and the logic boards for iBooks were less than that, by quite a bit.
Now, with the repair extension, it makes more sense to send it back to Apple yourself, because the dealers can't get the logic boards for the iBooks covered by the repair extension.
But for the iBook G4, take it to your local dealer - and buy the AppleCare. $249 is cheaper than most iBook repairs.
Most resellers charge LESS for memory than Apple...
Actually, Apple sets a minimum advertised price, dealers can lose their authorization for advertising a price below that. Everybody is advertising at that price, so no dealer can as a practical matter sell at a higher price. So, it is, in effect a fixed price for any publicly displayed advertising.
Somehow, Amazon gets away with ignoring it.
They also have a very high wholesale price that they charge most dealers, so most dealers are not able to give any discounts below the minimum advertised price.
And now, they've started a price matching campaign in case any dealer does privately offer a lower price to a customer. They have been known to use service records to contact the dealer's customers and offer them discounts.
Top it off with retailers not being able to get products until all of their own stores are fully stocked, and you get the picture.
Customers understandably have a great deal of frustration when the dealer has no minis to sell, doesn't know when they will get any, and hasn't even seen one yet, and their friends who ordered direct from Apple already have their computers.
Lead leaching from your plumbing is apparently very unlikely, unless your pipes are lead. The small amount of lead solder that used to be used in copper plumbing scales over in a few years, and lead doesn't escape into your water.
The public drinking water in the US is almost always perfectly safe to drink right out of the tap.
The only reason for filtering is taste. As far as I'm concerned, the chlorine is doing a wonderful job of keeping the water bacteria free on the way to me. I'd just rather not taste it in the water, so I filter it out on my end. The water here also has a few other non-harmful minerals in it, but they also taste pretty nasty, so I'd rather filter them out, too.
Sounds like privatization killed it. As a government entity, last mile can be done without regard for any profit, but as soon as you privitize a natural monopoly, innovation stops.
Now, the government may or may not do better, but at least there's a chance.
I have. Most of my customers get confused when the computer asks them for a password. They call me to ask what their password is.
Of course, this also means that they don't have a fully patched system... But they've also got all sharing turned off.
Ahh, to have mod points. That was the funniest thing I've read all day.
You're probably just an old fart.
But I agree with you completely.
I miss the websites of the early '90s, when people didn't feel like a graphic designer needed to spooge all over the information.
If you've got a judgement, and you know where a corporation keeps its bank accounts (not hard to find one account somewhere, really) you can get a garnishment.
With that, the bank just hands over your judgement.
Not from a girl who wants to do me for my cell phone, no.
Trust me on this one - if she sees a fancy cell phone and wants you, she's in it for the money. Run.
It's a constitutional issue because Apple is asking the government to force the press to reveal the source.
Apple has the right to ask ThinkSecret for the source. ThinkSecret has the right to tell Apple to get stuffed. The government, under the protections granted the press by the First Amendment, does not have the right to force ThinkSecret to tell Apple anything.
So, Apple has the right to sue someone who has broken their NDA. Apple does not have the right to obtain that information through government coercion of ThinkSecret, and the trade secret laws that give the government that power are unconstitutional, inasmuch as they are an abridgement of the freedom of the press.
Yes, but I like those features fine.
I want a big one.
Nobody makes a phone big enough for me anymore. i want a phone that extends from my ear to my mouth, and can rest comfortably on my shoulder. I'm not interested in putting it in my pocket, I'll clip it to my belt, thanks. But I'm sick of small telephones.
Oh, and one more little feature that I want - GOOD VOICE QUALITY. I can almost live without big for that one.
That would be the PowerBook G3 Series "WallStreet" models. Serial, ADB, and SCSI - but they've got CardBus.
My memory is a bit fuzzy as to whether the original PBG3 "Kanga" had CardBus.
Actually, Quartz didn't exist before Mac OS X. It was written to replace the NeXT Display Postscript drawing engine.
Hmm... I think I might even sue the lock manufacturer. If I've bought a new lock that's been advertised to keep the burglar out, and he goes in by breaking the lock, I've even got a case.
Now, if I buy a lock that is known to be defective, I don't have a case - I should have known better.
But I can still be annoyed that the lock manufacturer makes garbage locks.
Or I can just use another company's locks. That's the problem with Microsoft, they have so much of the market that many people are stuck using their locks, even when they know they're garbage. Me, I'll stick with Macintosh and Linux.
I'm not sure how you get incompetence...
They've got the rest of it, but they seem to be pretty competent at it.
ahh, to be able to mod things funny.
I wasn't in favor of Jobs coming back. I would much rather Woz were capable of taking over management functions - but he's an engineer, and only wants to be an engineer.
So no, I'm not a Jobs fan. I'm a Woz fan, and I'll be unapologetic about that, but I've been pleasantly surprised that Jobs hasn't fucked everything up a second time.
well, I'm only paying about 6.3 cents per kilowatt/hour for electricity. I think the government is doing a pretty good job of not being the most costly way of getting things done.
Well, the government does supply my electricity, water, and natural gas.
It's a pretty efficient operation, and I pay less than most people who don't have it supplied by the government.
I rather like it.