It takes getting used to but if you use it often it is an awesome mouse. I especially love that the middle button is a trackball. The only negatives IMO is that it costs $70 which I find a little excessive and you can't lift it when dragging so you need a big mouse pad if you have a 24" iMac.
I have an 01 Focus that has had engine trouble it's entire life. It goes through a set of tires (no matter how good they are) about every 15,000 miles despite balancing and rotation - have had everything checked repeatedly.
My sister-in-law's 01 Focus blew an engine when it was only used a couple times a week for light errands.
My friend's Ranger kept needing major engine repairs repeatedly until she finally got rid of it.
My college roommate had a Ranger that the brakes would go out every other month without explanation despite the fact he kept taking it back to the dealer for repairs. He eventually died when the steering and brakes both went out at the same time on the highway.
I did have a 1980 Ford F-150 and it did quite well. I'd take that back over any Ford I've had since.
Come to Utah - I'll switch my service provider today with an offer like that. When I lived in Missouri my cable was through CableVision assuming it was the same company.
Am I the only person that's noticed that every one of these struggling brands makes suck ass cars? I've bought them and had constant maintenance issues. On the other hand the Honda and Toyota's I've bought have done much better. Even Ford came out about two years ago and announced that they were going to try to stop sucking - to little to late maybe?
If you make a crappy product then maybe it's good for you to go out of business. Why should I pay $30000 for a vehicle that won't last 10 years of normal use before it starts to have major issues?
Joking aside, without taking time to think on it, I'd probably say the other pillars are Democracy, Capitalism, Militarism, and Socialism.
I expect that statement makes damn near everyone hate me. But I think I'm basically saying that what makes us strong is that we place importance on intelligence and doing new things, a fair form of government, and in helping our fellow man and at the same time we're wise enough to know that the desire to improve one's station is fundamental to our lives and that sometimes you just have to kick someone's ass to get them to stop acting like a jerk.
I don't usually agree with Obama but I'm glad he can see that science is one of the pillars that has made America strong. I was thinking last night that my grandmother saw in just a few decades us go from riding around in horse drawn wagons to going to the moon. That is just amazing. Science did that.
I used to work at TigerDirect and I'd never buy a PC from them. They pushed us to upsell warranties on every computer even as they told us that they would not honor those warranties. They'd have major issues such as whole lots of systems being shipped out without the CD drive and they wouldn't want to fix the problem for customers or even ship them the drives to put in themselves.
The owner's office window had curtains made out real paper money ($100 bills) and he was quite the piece of work.
Lots of interesting crap went on there so I'd suggest buying from NewEgg also.
I'd love to see my town run gigabit fiber everywhere and a wireless mesh network. Of course all hooked to a beefy upstream connection. I think it'd open up a lot of possibilities for local businesses and bring in some high tech jobs. Let property taxes pay for it and maintain it.
If only one wire is going to be run to every location then the monopoly should be held by the government IMO.
So does this mean that Windows 7 is so loaded down with crap that they just don't think your 4GB of RAM and dual-core CPU can handle more than three apps at once? I might believe that argument.
I hope viruses and spyware don't count as apps though or people won't be able to use their computer. Oh yeh - most can't anyway.
Very true. It's often not portable at all. Which is why you'll see a lot of 'Enterprise' software that only runs on a single platform whereas my free open source programs run on all flavors of Windows, OS X, Linux, BSD, AIX, etc. Give me FOSS any day over proprietary crapware.
That too. I'll often buy something I've already downloaded for free. One of my current favorites is Pornophonique. I'm working on licensing their music to put into a game I'm writing.
Weird Al is another one I regularly pay for even though I've already downloaded his stuff for free.
It's a shame iTunes doesn't let you make micro payments for songs you listen to. Or even auto-purchase a song after so many listens.
I'd add that piracy is not going to be easy to beat while companies are overpricing their products. Quite simply their products aren't worth the price they want to charge but are worth looking at for free. They might be worth something but the company isn't making them available for that - you have to choose full cost or free.
I might not pay $8 for an eBook or movie but I'd pay $1. Maybe a couple dollars in some cases. But that isn't an option so I get it for free and occasionally buy the product at full price if I liked it enough. I think of it more as shareware than piracy as I do tend to purchase content I like if it's available to buy.
*shrugs* If they won't sell it to me and it's not private material then it should go into the public domain. Once made public it should never stop being public - it's part of our shared culture.
I'd like it if there was a central repository (maybe the LoC) that you could legally get digital copies of everything. They could collect and distribute payments when something was still in copyright and otherwise make it available for free. It frustrates me when something I used to have and was lost/damaged can no longer be purchased. I'd like to share my favorite books from my childhood with my children but they won't let sell me the books or if the books are available they are old and in bad shape and very expensive.
This was all sci fi/fantasy which is what I mostly like. I stumbled upon it while looking for an out of print book I liked as a teenager. Is something like 7GB of ebooks. Looks to be all Fictionwise and after reading a few I'm not sure I would have been happy paying for these as the editing is poor and obviously the result of OCR. A shame we can't have a group project to improve the editing.
Episodes are still frequently over priced. A big example I was recently annoyed by was School House Rock - They wanted about $1 per minute of play time. I'd love to give them some money but that is just outrageous and many comments indicated similar feelings from others.
I don't pay for cable because it costs more than it's worth for me. Largely because the shows I want to watch aren't on all the time and I'm not going to dedicate myself to a show schedule.
Downloading illegally wins in the end. I just went on BT and downloaded some 45,000+ titles from Fictionwise. Good thing they wouldn't let me give them any money.
I buy movies and tv shows from the iTunes Store but I wish they'd learn from their music sales and get rid of the DRM. I remove the DRM anyway but it's an extra step that I find annoying.
Other than that my biggest complaint is price. It costs as much, or more, to buy the content from iTunes than it does on DVD. Without physical media, packaging, shipping costs, etc we should save at least a couple dollars per movie. And I think $2+ per tv episode is rather high. I'd buy way more if they were kept to $.99 or less per episode. I'd certainly buy more than twice as much content. I think greed is hurting their sales.
Being able to BT a file instead of buying a CD makes me more likely to try an artist. Being free on iTunes and Jamendo would be a good start too. Being free isn't enough to make me interested though. You have to let me know your product exists and make it worth my time to download and listen to. Even free products have to compete. I'd suggest learning about online marketing and from the opensource community.
One of the benefits of the App Store is that you don't have to grab a credit card. You can click and buy without thinking. I'll do that with $1 items but I start to consider it more even at $4 or $5. I'd rather buy half a dozen $1 apps to look at than $5 for a single app that I may or may not like.
Shareware may be the difference - if I've tried it and liked it a lot then maybe I'll pay more. Usually I don't like it that much though.
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The new touchpads were a bit of a surprise but now I like them a lot. When I use my Dell I get frustrated because the touchpad sucks.
It takes getting used to but if you use it often it is an awesome mouse. I especially love that the middle button is a trackball. The only negatives IMO is that it costs $70 which I find a little excessive and you can't lift it when dragging so you need a big mouse pad if you have a 24" iMac.
You want what Apple suggests. Anything else sucks in comparison IMO.
I have an 01 Focus that has had engine trouble it's entire life. It goes through a set of tires (no matter how good they are) about every 15,000 miles despite balancing and rotation - have had everything checked repeatedly.
My sister-in-law's 01 Focus blew an engine when it was only used a couple times a week for light errands.
My friend's Ranger kept needing major engine repairs repeatedly until she finally got rid of it.
My college roommate had a Ranger that the brakes would go out every other month without explanation despite the fact he kept taking it back to the dealer for repairs. He eventually died when the steering and brakes both went out at the same time on the highway.
I did have a 1980 Ford F-150 and it did quite well. I'd take that back over any Ford I've had since.
Partially true but I could see a lot of benefit if they offered local markets at highspeed even. P2P and gaming could be awesome.
Come to Utah - I'll switch my service provider today with an offer like that. When I lived in Missouri my cable was through CableVision assuming it was the same company.
Am I the only person that's noticed that every one of these struggling brands makes suck ass cars? I've bought them and had constant maintenance issues. On the other hand the Honda and Toyota's I've bought have done much better. Even Ford came out about two years ago and announced that they were going to try to stop sucking - to little to late maybe?
If you make a crappy product then maybe it's good for you to go out of business. Why should I pay $30000 for a vehicle that won't last 10 years of normal use before it starts to have major issues?
Joking aside, without taking time to think on it, I'd probably say the other pillars are Democracy, Capitalism, Militarism, and Socialism.
I expect that statement makes damn near everyone hate me. But I think I'm basically saying that what makes us strong is that we place importance on intelligence and doing new things, a fair form of government, and in helping our fellow man and at the same time we're wise enough to know that the desire to improve one's station is fundamental to our lives and that sometimes you just have to kick someone's ass to get them to stop acting like a jerk.
I don't usually agree with Obama but I'm glad he can see that science is one of the pillars that has made America strong. I was thinking last night that my grandmother saw in just a few decades us go from riding around in horse drawn wagons to going to the moon. That is just amazing. Science did that.
Didn't I see this on Reno 911?
I used to work at TigerDirect and I'd never buy a PC from them. They pushed us to upsell warranties on every computer even as they told us that they would not honor those warranties. They'd have major issues such as whole lots of systems being shipped out without the CD drive and they wouldn't want to fix the problem for customers or even ship them the drives to put in themselves.
The owner's office window had curtains made out real paper money ($100 bills) and he was quite the piece of work.
Lots of interesting crap went on there so I'd suggest buying from NewEgg also.
I'd love to see my town run gigabit fiber everywhere and a wireless mesh network. Of course all hooked to a beefy upstream connection. I think it'd open up a lot of possibilities for local businesses and bring in some high tech jobs. Let property taxes pay for it and maintain it.
If only one wire is going to be run to every location then the monopoly should be held by the government IMO.
No, they'll make a special exception for trojans. They don't want to confuse their users with to different a user experience.
So does this mean that Windows 7 is so loaded down with crap that they just don't think your 4GB of RAM and dual-core CPU can handle more than three apps at once? I might believe that argument.
I hope viruses and spyware don't count as apps though or people won't be able to use their computer. Oh yeh - most can't anyway.
Very true. It's often not portable at all. Which is why you'll see a lot of 'Enterprise' software that only runs on a single platform whereas my free open source programs run on all flavors of Windows, OS X, Linux, BSD, AIX, etc. Give me FOSS any day over proprietary crapware.
That too. I'll often buy something I've already downloaded for free. One of my current favorites is Pornophonique. I'm working on licensing their music to put into a game I'm writing.
Weird Al is another one I regularly pay for even though I've already downloaded his stuff for free.
It's a shame iTunes doesn't let you make micro payments for songs you listen to. Or even auto-purchase a song after so many listens.
I'd add that piracy is not going to be easy to beat while companies are overpricing their products. Quite simply their products aren't worth the price they want to charge but are worth looking at for free. They might be worth something but the company isn't making them available for that - you have to choose full cost or free.
I might not pay $8 for an eBook or movie but I'd pay $1. Maybe a couple dollars in some cases. But that isn't an option so I get it for free and occasionally buy the product at full price if I liked it enough. I think of it more as shareware than piracy as I do tend to purchase content I like if it's available to buy.
*shrugs* If they won't sell it to me and it's not private material then it should go into the public domain. Once made public it should never stop being public - it's part of our shared culture.
I'd like it if there was a central repository (maybe the LoC) that you could legally get digital copies of everything. They could collect and distribute payments when something was still in copyright and otherwise make it available for free. It frustrates me when something I used to have and was lost/damaged can no longer be purchased. I'd like to share my favorite books from my childhood with my children but they won't let sell me the books or if the books are available they are old and in bad shape and very expensive.
This was all sci fi/fantasy which is what I mostly like. I stumbled upon it while looking for an out of print book I liked as a teenager. Is something like 7GB of ebooks. Looks to be all Fictionwise and after reading a few I'm not sure I would have been happy paying for these as the editing is poor and obviously the result of OCR. A shame we can't have a group project to improve the editing.
Episodes are still frequently over priced. A big example I was recently annoyed by was School House Rock - They wanted about $1 per minute of play time. I'd love to give them some money but that is just outrageous and many comments indicated similar feelings from others.
I don't pay for cable because it costs more than it's worth for me. Largely because the shows I want to watch aren't on all the time and I'm not going to dedicate myself to a show schedule.
Downloading illegally wins in the end. I just went on BT and downloaded some 45,000+ titles from Fictionwise. Good thing they wouldn't let me give them any money.
I buy movies and tv shows from the iTunes Store but I wish they'd learn from their music sales and get rid of the DRM. I remove the DRM anyway but it's an extra step that I find annoying.
Other than that my biggest complaint is price. It costs as much, or more, to buy the content from iTunes than it does on DVD. Without physical media, packaging, shipping costs, etc we should save at least a couple dollars per movie. And I think $2+ per tv episode is rather high. I'd buy way more if they were kept to $.99 or less per episode. I'd certainly buy more than twice as much content. I think greed is hurting their sales.
Being able to BT a file instead of buying a CD makes me more likely to try an artist. Being free on iTunes and Jamendo would be a good start too. Being free isn't enough to make me interested though. You have to let me know your product exists and make it worth my time to download and listen to. Even free products have to compete. I'd suggest learning about online marketing and from the opensource community.
Have you seen non-free code? FOSS may be a cobbled together mess but the vast majority of non-free code is much worse.
One of the benefits of the App Store is that you don't have to grab a credit card. You can click and buy without thinking. I'll do that with $1 items but I start to consider it more even at $4 or $5. I'd rather buy half a dozen $1 apps to look at than $5 for a single app that I may or may not like.
Shareware may be the difference - if I've tried it and liked it a lot then maybe I'll pay more. Usually I don't like it that much though.