but I'm going to end up shelling out twenty or thirty bucks for a punk album with tons of short songs (there's a Minutemen album I really want that has 22 songs)?
$0.99 USD Is too pricy. It is more than the cost of the average cd and the AAC encoding is a lossy format. Perhaps if they offer better deals on albums or bulk songs this is a good deal. As it stands, music is too expensive already.
I thought an average CD was $16. That's 16 tracks. Not out of the ballpark. Plus, I thought the biggest complaint was having to buy a whole CD for just one to two good tracks. That's only $2. What's the problem with that?
It's good to see someone taking responsibility for their actions. It's not a crime only if it is profitable for you. He stole from the company, and should be convicted, no matter what the motive. Robin Hood might have been a nice fairy tale, but doesn't belong in society today.
Is it even safe to encourage strict Creationists (or others with strong anti-scientific beliefs) to become doctors?
Why should a person not be a scientist because he is a Creationist? Do you know what a Creationist is? Creationist place much more evidence in scientific fact then evolutionists do. An evolutionist will find a tooth and a toe 1 mile apart in different stone layers and call it Lucy. A creationist will look that at evidence and say that they must have came from different people or animals.
Would they ignore animal research results, etc?"
I thought it was the environmentalists who were against animal research. I don't hear anyone saying that they should not be allowed in the science field.
How does putting someone in jail for *committing* a crime violate MY civil liberties? Sure, I'm going to lock my doors, but that doesn't mean that anyone who breaks the lock should be let free.
Will we get to upgrade for free? Or is this our yearly $100 for an OS upgrade? Why not just have people who know they will want to upgrade subscribe to the OS (say, at a reduced rate maybe)?
How come people always want things for free? What's the deal? Sometimes I think that people's adversion to capitalism hurts companies worse then Microsoft's anti-trust violations.
Are you willing to make the blanket statement all actions in which your ID card would be entangled can be and should be freely monitored by your country's officials?
In the US, we elect our officials. I *want* to be monitored by officials that are working to protect us. Monitoring is good, if someone does something bad, I want the government to do something about it. I, for one, don't do bad things and have nothing to hide. I'm sure that millions of other Americans feel the same way.
The bad thing comes when Americans *choose* to elect corrupt officials who hate moral people and want to hurt them. But corrupt officials don't need an ID Card to hurt moral people, there are many ways.
If the choice is to be hurt by corrupt officials with or without ID Cards, or let the goverment use ID cards to protect me, I'm choosing ID Cards. And I'm going to do my part to make sure that good officials continue to be elected. That is why I will be voting for Bush again next year.
Not to start a flame-war, but please cite your sources for this claim.
The Apple iBook with the 14.1 inch screen is $1499. The Dell Inspiron similarily configured, except for the free memory upgrade, and a 2ghz Celeron instead of an 867mhz G3 is $1467. Notice that Dell has 3 rebates on now, including the free DVD/CDRW upgrade. I'm certain the last time I priced the Dell, they were not running those deals. That would add ~$250 to the current Dell quote, I believe.
So, the answer is, it *may* be time to think about purchasing a Dell. But I'm still not convinced that going from an 867mhz PowerPC and OS X to 2ghz Celeron and XP home is an even exchange.
Powerpc processors are crippled compared to athlons or pIV's and yet apple charges a premium for them.
I guess I haven't noticed the premiums that Apple charges for notebooks. I'm looking to purchase a notebook, and am trying to decide if I shuld go iBook or not. Everyone tells me that Apple is more expensive, but for their notebooks I don't see that. Similarily configured notebooks from Apple, as far as I can tell are ~$300 LESS then notebooks from Dell or Compaq.
The embedded version is simply a normal version of linux (yes, we do mean redhat, debian, even mandrake...)
That's not technically true. You can't really take a copy of Redhat, only choose the packages you need, and install it on an embedded device. Even if the device is based on x86 architecture.
But, even if that was the case, you still wouldn't be able to install Windows Media Player for Linux on your RedHat desktop. That's because you wouldn't be able to get a copy of WMP for Linux. Microsoft will license it to OEMs directly. It certainly won't be a download on their website.
Someone needs to smack the marketroids at Sun upside the head with the news that version numbers aren't just there because they make a pretty sound when you say them, they're meant to convey information to the customer.
Um, hello? That's exactly why this version number is 6.0. It's because it's not just a pretty sound when you say it, it is because it is meant to convey the concept that this IM product is meant to integrate with the SunONE platform, which, coincidentaly, has a version 6 label. Wild, isn't it?
If it's not open source (c'mon, it's Microsoft! Of course it won't be!), then what's the point?
I think you missed it. This isn't for Linux. It is for consumer devices that are *based* on Linux. Someone else commented that the market for this is non-existant. They are wrong. The market for this is everyone that has a Windows PC who goes into Best Buy for a stereo system that can play their music files. They don't care one bit whether it is based on Windows CE or Linux because it doesn't matter. They can't play with the OS anyways.
Uh, I'm sure that companies using Redhat's portal and CMS applications are not running them on servers with 64meg of RAM. I'd say 1gig min. Maybe 512. Anyways, at any rate memory is not going to be an issue.
Besides, I don't like Sun - it's no better than Microsoft, just less lucky.
So, please tell me. What has Sun done to break antitrust law? Don't just spout out without being willing to stand by your words. You must have some information if you claim that. Don't forget, in the US Sun is innocent tell proven guilty.
is still the most successful from the commercial point of view?
Probably because they are interested in the best tool for the job, and not just having a hypocritical idealogical outlook.
However, I did buy the PSP for a Palm M105. After about 8 months though the battery cover clasp broke and they sent me a "gift certificate" for the cost of the Palm when I originally purchased it. WooHoo!!
I used that to purchase a Sharp Zaurus on clearance. I didn't buy a PSP for that though because by that time I hadn't had a real job for over a year and a half and was broke:(
It seems like Apple switching to Intel would be a support nightmare. Between people hosing their system by running BSD or Linux binaries and people swapping in PC hardware, it could be very, very ugly.
Apple switching to x86 based processors is a much different scenerio then most people envision. Apple would not sell OS X to just run on any white-box hardware.
In fact, most people would not even realize that it was an x86-based processor. Apple would still only sell iMacs, iBooks, and the rest of their line-up. They'd just have a new chip inside.
Even if Apple did use an x86-based processor, OS X would *not* run on Dell hardware. The situation would not change, and it would not be a support nightmare.
I'll admit the service is a good one, but I think people for the most part don't like the idea of paying each month for something they can do manually with a VCR.
I thought that the idea of a PVR was that you didn't need to do something manually.
If Tivo and Replay would operate just like a VCR and allow you to use their service if you want to, or just use the system as a regular VCR if you didn't want to pay the monthly fees
If someone wants a VCR, why wouldn't they by a VCR? It astounds me that someone would buy a PVR if all they were interested in was a VCR.
I guess they might be interested in the capability to record to a non-removable media, but it doesn't seem like that big of advantage to me. It's got limited storage, and you can't take a program you've recorded to a different set, or bring it to a friends.
BTW, i was wondering why you weren't commenting on the afghanistan issue and other things in my reply. running out of arguments, arent' ya?
Sorry. I was kind of rushed and wanted to focus what I considered the more important point.
I realize that certain US Representatives have said that Bin Laden has done more for the Afganistan people then we have. The TV networks have gotten bored with Afganistan also. It's just not glamourous to follow the reconstruction of a nation. It's only been about a year though. I'm not willing to expect the US to drop a bunch of pixie dust in Afganistan and a year later everything be perfect. Bin Laden supposed had 10 years to do his building in Afganistan.
The US blew up Japan too. But after the war, they were involved in recontruction. That's a big reason why Japan is the way it is today. I think the US can claim a lot of credit for Japan. I think Iraq can have the same future. Not this year, or next year, or even 10 years. But I think if we get Saddam out of there, the US will be involved in the reconstrution that could make Iraq one of the pivitol countries in the Middle East.
There are lots of websites dealing with the connections between the Bush administration and american oil tycoons. Do yourself a favor and look it up on google.
I consider myself very well versed in foreign policy, and I've kept up on the theories. I just don't think that they hold much water. Who knows, maybe the US will start buying oil as a way to pour money into the new Iraq. Sounds better then just giving them loans without reciprication. I don't have anything against that. But too claim that we are just doing this because the UN won't let us buy oil from Iraq, that's stretching logic a little too far.
Also, I'm familiar with the vote on the Alaskan drilling yesterday. I actually am glad you mentioned it because both my Senators voted against it and I had forgotten to call today to express my displeasure.
It surprises me thatso many people can't see the results that are wanted. I guess it's true that most people expect the worst. Something that I've tried to do in my life is to believe that good people want good things to happen. It's something that I believe has made me a more positive person.
Take a look at the bigger picture. There are so many connections between Bush & friends and big oil companies, it's really hard to ignore.
Where's the evidence? I haven't seen any yet. The only countries that I know of that are interested in the Iraqi oil are France, Russia, and China.
Those resources can't be extracted right now because of the UN embargo empowered in 1991. On the other hand, known experts say that global oil resources will be depleted in the next 40 years. funny coincidence, isn't it?
Not really. There's a ton of oil in the US. Bush is a capitalist. He wants to drill for oil here in the US. In Alaska specifically. Why would he go to Iraq and spend all that money when he could be drilling for oil here?
Freedom of Speech, The American Way of Life, liberty, basic civil rights. All this will be gone soon if you refuse to wake up and take a critical view with open eyes.
The people in Iraq have none of these freedoms. We are fighting to give them the same rights we have. Certainly civilians will die, but Saddam has murdered thousands of his own citizens. Thousands more will die by his own actions directly before the war is over.
Should we not free the Iraqi people because Saddam will kill more people before he is defeated? Or should we be willing to pay the costs for the ultimate good.
I'd rather people die for freedom, rather then needlessly die because no one is willing to give them the same rights we have.
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No, $9.99. Please pay attention.
-BrentI thought an average CD was $16. That's 16 tracks. Not out of the ballpark. Plus, I thought the biggest complaint was having to buy a whole CD for just one to two good tracks. That's only $2. What's the problem with that?
-BrentIt's good to see someone taking responsibility for their actions. It's not a crime only if it is profitable for you. He stole from the company, and should be convicted, no matter what the motive. Robin Hood might have been a nice fairy tale, but doesn't belong in society today.
-Brent
Why should a person not be a scientist because he is a Creationist? Do you know what a Creationist is? Creationist place much more evidence in scientific fact then evolutionists do. An evolutionist will find a tooth and a toe 1 mile apart in different stone layers and call it Lucy. A creationist will look that at evidence and say that they must have came from different people or animals.
Would they ignore animal research results, etc?"I thought it was the environmentalists who were against animal research. I don't hear anyone saying that they should not be allowed in the science field.
-BrentIsn't that exactly what voter apathy is?
-BrentHow does putting someone in jail for *committing* a crime violate MY civil liberties? Sure, I'm going to lock my doors, but that doesn't mean that anyone who breaks the lock should be let free.
-Brent
The *upgrade* for Windows 2003 Server is a lot more then $100, and I'm not hearing too much complaining.
-BrentHow come people always want things for free? What's the deal? Sometimes I think that people's adversion to capitalism hurts companies worse then Microsoft's anti-trust violations.
-BrentIn the US, we elect our officials. I *want* to be monitored by officials that are working to protect us. Monitoring is good, if someone does something bad, I want the government to do something about it. I, for one, don't do bad things and have nothing to hide. I'm sure that millions of other Americans feel the same way.
The bad thing comes when Americans *choose* to elect corrupt officials who hate moral people and want to hurt them. But corrupt officials don't need an ID Card to hurt moral people, there are many ways.
If the choice is to be hurt by corrupt officials with or without ID Cards, or let the goverment use ID cards to protect me, I'm choosing ID Cards. And I'm going to do my part to make sure that good officials continue to be elected. That is why I will be voting for Bush again next year.
-BrentThe Apple iBook with the 14.1 inch screen is $1499. The Dell Inspiron similarily configured, except for the free memory upgrade, and a 2ghz Celeron instead of an 867mhz G3 is $1467. Notice that Dell has 3 rebates on now, including the free DVD/CDRW upgrade. I'm certain the last time I priced the Dell, they were not running those deals. That would add ~$250 to the current Dell quote, I believe.
So, the answer is, it *may* be time to think about purchasing a Dell. But I'm still not convinced that going from an 867mhz PowerPC and OS X to 2ghz Celeron and XP home is an even exchange.
-BrentI guess I haven't noticed the premiums that Apple charges for notebooks. I'm looking to purchase a notebook, and am trying to decide if I shuld go iBook or not. Everyone tells me that Apple is more expensive, but for their notebooks I don't see that. Similarily configured notebooks from Apple, as far as I can tell are ~$300 LESS then notebooks from Dell or Compaq.
-BrentPlease tell me why you are so interested in an x86 version of the iBook. Is it just the mhz myth that scares you?
-BrentThat's not technically true. You can't really take a copy of Redhat, only choose the packages you need, and install it on an embedded device. Even if the device is based on x86 architecture.
But, even if that was the case, you still wouldn't be able to install Windows Media Player for Linux on your RedHat desktop. That's because you wouldn't be able to get a copy of WMP for Linux. Microsoft will license it to OEMs directly. It certainly won't be a download on their website.
-BrentUm, hello? That's exactly why this version number is 6.0. It's because it's not just a pretty sound when you say it, it is because it is meant to convey the concept that this IM product is meant to integrate with the SunONE platform, which, coincidentaly, has a version 6 label. Wild, isn't it?
-BrentI think you missed it. This isn't for Linux. It is for consumer devices that are *based* on Linux. Someone else commented that the market for this is non-existant. They are wrong. The market for this is everyone that has a Windows PC who goes into Best Buy for a stereo system that can play their music files. They don't care one bit whether it is based on Windows CE or Linux because it doesn't matter. They can't play with the OS anyways.
-BrentUh, I'm sure that companies using Redhat's portal and CMS applications are not running them on servers with 64meg of RAM. I'd say 1gig min. Maybe 512. Anyways, at any rate memory is not going to be an issue.
Besides, I don't like Sun - it's no better than Microsoft, just less lucky.So, please tell me. What has Sun done to break antitrust law? Don't just spout out without being willing to stand by your words. You must have some information if you claim that. Don't forget, in the US Sun is innocent tell proven guilty.
is still the most successful from the commercial point of view?Probably because they are interested in the best tool for the job, and not just having a hypocritical idealogical outlook.
-BrentAnd don't forget, no matter what happens to Java and .Net, civil suits have never been settled on technical notes.
-Brent
However, I did buy the PSP for a Palm M105. After about 8 months though the battery cover clasp broke and they sent me a "gift certificate" for the cost of the Palm when I originally purchased it. WooHoo!!
:(
I used that to purchase a Sharp Zaurus on clearance. I didn't buy a PSP for that though because by that time I hadn't had a real job for over a year and a half and was broke
-Brent
Um, I wouldn't call selling a legitimate product a scam. You seem to believe that Redhat is obligated to provide ISO's for you free. Why?
-BrentI forget! Maybe I'm just not invincible after all!
-BrentApple switching to x86 based processors is a much different scenerio then most people envision. Apple would not sell OS X to just run on any white-box hardware.
In fact, most people would not even realize that it was an x86-based processor. Apple would still only sell iMacs, iBooks, and the rest of their line-up. They'd just have a new chip inside.
Even if Apple did use an x86-based processor, OS X would *not* run on Dell hardware. The situation would not change, and it would not be a support nightmare.
-BrentI thought that the idea of a PVR was that you didn't need to do something manually.
If Tivo and Replay would operate just like a VCR and allow you to use their service if you want to, or just use the system as a regular VCR if you didn't want to pay the monthly feesIf someone wants a VCR, why wouldn't they by a VCR? It astounds me that someone would buy a PVR if all they were interested in was a VCR.
I guess they might be interested in the capability to record to a non-removable media, but it doesn't seem like that big of advantage to me. It's got limited storage, and you can't take a program you've recorded to a different set, or bring it to a friends.
-BrentSorry. I was kind of rushed and wanted to focus what I considered the more important point.
I realize that certain US Representatives have said that Bin Laden has done more for the Afganistan people then we have. The TV networks have gotten bored with Afganistan also. It's just not glamourous to follow the reconstruction of a nation. It's only been about a year though. I'm not willing to expect the US to drop a bunch of pixie dust in Afganistan and a year later everything be perfect. Bin Laden supposed had 10 years to do his building in Afganistan.
The US blew up Japan too. But after the war, they were involved in recontruction. That's a big reason why Japan is the way it is today. I think the US can claim a lot of credit for Japan. I think Iraq can have the same future. Not this year, or next year, or even 10 years. But I think if we get Saddam out of there, the US will be involved in the reconstrution that could make Iraq one of the pivitol countries in the Middle East.
There are lots of websites dealing with the connections between the Bush administration and american oil tycoons. Do yourself a favor and look it up on google.I consider myself very well versed in foreign policy, and I've kept up on the theories. I just don't think that they hold much water. Who knows, maybe the US will start buying oil as a way to pour money into the new Iraq. Sounds better then just giving them loans without reciprication. I don't have anything against that. But too claim that we are just doing this because the UN won't let us buy oil from Iraq, that's stretching logic a little too far.
Also, I'm familiar with the vote on the Alaskan drilling yesterday. I actually am glad you mentioned it because both my Senators voted against it and I had forgotten to call today to express my displeasure.
It surprises me thatso many people can't see the results that are wanted. I guess it's true that most people expect the worst. Something that I've tried to do in my life is to believe that good people want good things to happen. It's something that I believe has made me a more positive person.
-BrentWhere's the evidence? I haven't seen any yet. The only countries that I know of that are interested in the Iraqi oil are France, Russia, and China.
Those resources can't be extracted right now because of the UN embargo empowered in 1991. On the other hand, known experts say that global oil resources will be depleted in the next 40 years. funny coincidence, isn't it?Not really. There's a ton of oil in the US. Bush is a capitalist. He wants to drill for oil here in the US. In Alaska specifically. Why would he go to Iraq and spend all that money when he could be drilling for oil here?
-BrentThe people in Iraq have none of these freedoms. We are fighting to give them the same rights we have. Certainly civilians will die, but Saddam has murdered thousands of his own citizens. Thousands more will die by his own actions directly before the war is over.
Should we not free the Iraqi people because Saddam will kill more people before he is defeated? Or should we be willing to pay the costs for the ultimate good.
I'd rather people die for freedom, rather then needlessly die because no one is willing to give them the same rights we have.
-Brent