If anyone has brought this up yet, I haven't seen it: how is Apple dealing with the problem of credit card fees for small charges? Is it safe to assume that most customers will buy more than five songs at a time?
It was "The Trouble With Tribbles" that established Gerrold as an SF writer; unlike Sturgeon and Ellison, he was pretty much an unknown before he wrote for Star Trek.
I agree completely with your point, of course. If there's anything that could resurrect ST, it's good, original writing.
> Do you want children to be able to cirvumvent the controls put in place to protect them?
"Protect" means different things to different people -- just look at this article from a few months back. Peacefire and censorware.org also have a great deal of discussion about the issues associated with web-filtering.
AppleInsider is kind (brave? foolish?) enough to maintain an archive of past articles, so you can judge their credibility yourself.
(For those of you who aren't familiar with what Apple did when but want to play along anyway, try cross-referencing AppleInsider's hardware predictions with www.everymac.com.)
Just one here: whenever anyone says "Y2K" in my presence, I will hit them over the head with a can of Spam. (If I had more foresight, this would have been my resolution for 1999.)
For those of you wondering where the title comes from, "Thermopylae" translates into something like "warm gates." Presumably, the author decided that "Gates of Fire" sounded more impressive.
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Dammit, I just didn't scroll far enough down. Of course someone else asked that before I did.
If anyone has brought this up yet, I haven't seen it: how is Apple dealing with the problem of credit card fees for small charges? Is it safe to assume that most customers will buy more than five songs at a time?
It was "The Trouble With Tribbles" that established Gerrold as an SF writer; unlike Sturgeon and Ellison, he was pretty much an unknown before he wrote for Star Trek.
I agree completely with your point, of course. If there's anything that could resurrect ST, it's good, original writing.
"Protect" means different things to different people -- just look at this article from a few months back. Peacefire and censorware.org also have a great deal of discussion about the issues associated with web-filtering.
AppleInsider is kind (brave? foolish?) enough to maintain an archive of past articles, so you can judge their credibility yourself.
(For those of you who aren't familiar with what Apple did when but want to play along anyway, try cross-referencing AppleInsider's hardware predictions with www.everymac.com.)
Inquiring minds want to know.
Just one here: whenever anyone says "Y2K" in my presence, I will hit them over the head with a can of Spam. (If I had more foresight, this would have been my resolution for 1999.)
For those of you wondering where the title comes from, "Thermopylae" translates into something like "warm gates." Presumably, the author decided that "Gates of Fire" sounded more impressive.