The phrase "insignificant african tribe" rubs me the wrong way.
Indigenous culture is getting trampled by ignorant mono-culture all over the world, so I don't think of any indigenous tribes as "insignificant".
I think you meant "unfamiliar from my subjective point of view" rather than "insigificant". Calm down, he probably meant "insignificant in the world scene". Which is pretty much anyone without nukes.
On a completely unrelated note (because I have to use at least 20s to type this damn post), one of my all-time favourite movie lines is from Boondock Saints; "You insignificaaant.......... little fuck!".
I use it for the XP boxes we have. That's about 40 boxes. Testing is the key. The USB problem you mention is AFAIR a setting choice when making the disc - that is, it was clearly used in a wrong manner, and clearly not thorough-tested.
I very strongly recommend that anybody in a business setting or anywhere else you care about stability thoroughly test anything and everything before deploying anything. I've made something like 30 iterations of the discs, almost every time having screwed with something that I shouldn't have - resulting in something not working properly. Rinse, repeat, etc., and you'll be a happier man because when you need to zero out an XP box, these things will, in the end, have saved you countless hours in driver installs, program installs, code typing, etc.
You understand wrong - there is no EU wide law making the tying of products illegal, otherwise the entire mobile market in the UK would have been in deep shit years ago. That is what the GP addresses with this:
You can get around it to some extent if the phone is being subsidised by the mobile phone company. Except as any mac fanboy will tell you the iphone is not subsidised. How in the world did you read anything specific about the iphone into the exchange you replied? The post I replied to was on a tangent relating to the UK phone market. I replied to the tangent relating to the UK phone market, and suddenly you're talking about how Apple Fanboys will tell me that there's no subsidizing on the phone? Wtf? You seem very confused. It also seems implicit that it has to be a "fanboy" that tells me this. Since you reiterated the information, does that make you a fanboy?
UK law is similar - an unsubidised phone must be unlocked and with a subsidised phone if you buy your way out of the contract they must provide an unlock code (http://www.ofcom.org.uk/static/archive/Oftel/consumer/advice/faqs/mobfaq3.htm) It's amazing that UK law is similar to, hold on, UK LAW. Please, please, PLEASE, try to read what you are replying to in the future.
Well, with over 2 billion cell phones in circulation in January 2006, I would imagine the number have increases somewhat, so yes the total world market is a few billion. http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=707714 That is a somewhat different ball game than your previous post; it is true that there are billions of phones in use all over the world. What your post then implied was that the Apple iPhone had the potential to be an instant de facto monopoly by conquering that market within 75 days.
jcr: sold a million units in 75 days. IdleTime: With a potential of several billion phones, I'd sat not that good.
With a potential of several billion phones, I'd sat not that good. That's a quite impressive number - that's like one in three on the entire fucking planet getting an iPhone.
You, sir, should obviously be in charge of Apple Corp. fortwith. I shall immediately write a letter to the shareholders so that they will demand you be hired, first thing Monday.
You understand wrong - there is no EU wide law making the tying of products illegal, otherwise the entire mobile market in the UK would have been in deep shit years ago. That is what the GP addresses with this:
You can get around it to some extent if the phone is being subsidised by the mobile phone company.
No kidding. I just downloaded the Voltron series. They have everything. Space explorers, space goddesses, even space mice. Planet-based space mice, to be precise. So yeah, I'm with you on the squid.
(Also, don't watch Voltron. It's so stupid you won't be able to stop!)
Maybe the exagerated collective interest in her on this site back when she was young? Especially as they all wanted her petrified, besides naked. Now if that isn't suspicious... Never quite saw it like that; seeing as she's also from '81, I'm good on the age thing. The petrification thing though... not my taste, but what can you do? This is the internet, and there's a place for every sexual fetish, including rubber boots, so there probably is a market for it.
Pull up my first comment... I believe subscribers get to see their entire comment history on their user page. And other user's comment history as well.
Not sure about submissions though. "Subscriber features". You can only see the last 25 comments and "few" submissions unless you pony up.
their cell phone (cough) alternative would be fantastic if this were still 1997. Keep yer' drawers on. When you see a mass-marketed OSS phone that you can bitch about, you probably will, but don't get ahead of yourself.
ya, that's right.. when you spend $600 on an iPhone, it's not really yours...somehow Apple still owns the device and is in the right when they destroy, confiscate or disable it. Wouldn't that basically explain this story? Isn't that what DRM is all about?
Reminds me of the story my father-in-law told me about the TV they had when he was a kid; they'd put in coins to watch television, and every once in a while a man would come to collect.
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On a completely unrelated note (because I have to use at least 20s to type this damn post), one of my all-time favourite movie lines is from Boondock Saints; "You insignificaaant
I use it for the XP boxes we have. That's about 40 boxes. Testing is the key.
The USB problem you mention is AFAIR a setting choice when making the disc - that is, it was clearly used in a wrong manner, and clearly not thorough-tested.
I very strongly recommend that anybody in a business setting or anywhere else you care about stability thoroughly test anything and everything before deploying anything. I've made something like 30 iterations of the discs, almost every time having screwed with something that I shouldn't have - resulting in something not working properly. Rinse, repeat, etc., and you'll be a happier man because when you need to zero out an XP box, these things will, in the end, have saved you countless hours in driver installs, program installs, code typing, etc.
How in the world did you read anything specific about the iphone into the exchange you replied? The post I replied to was on a tangent relating to the UK phone market. I replied to the tangent relating to the UK phone market, and suddenly you're talking about how Apple Fanboys will tell me that there's no subsidizing on the phone? Wtf? You seem very confused. It also seems implicit that it has to be a "fanboy" that tells me this. Since you reiterated the information, does that make you a fanboy? UK law is similar - an unsubidised phone must be unlocked and with a subsidised phone if you buy your way out of the contract they must provide an unlock code (http://www.ofcom.org.uk/static/archive/Oftel/consumer/advice/faqs/mobfaq3.htm)
It's amazing that UK law is similar to, hold on, UK LAW.
Please, please, PLEASE, try to read what you are replying to in the future.
Asus solved that problem for you. They sell a wifi-router with a built-in torrent client and room for a hard drive. :)
Forthwith, of course. It's 1 am where I am, and I haven't had enough coffee, please bear with me.
You, sir, should obviously be in charge of Apple Corp. fortwith. I shall immediately write a letter to the shareholders so that they will demand you be hired, first thing Monday.
Too bad you got modded troll. That's the funniest post I've read all week.
I don't know whether that's all bad; sneak oil is a rather untapped market.
I was expecting someone to make a joke like this, only also referring to BofH and OS/2.
No kidding. I just downloaded the Voltron series. They have everything. Space explorers, space goddesses, even space mice. Planet-based space mice, to be precise.
So yeah, I'm with you on the squid.
(Also, don't watch Voltron. It's so stupid you won't be able to stop!)
Mr. Shine. Him diamond!
The pink theme still makes me laugh out loud. Could be the half-dozen lagers I downed yesterday speaking, but that shit is funny.
Not sure about submissions though. "Subscriber features". You can only see the last 25 comments and "few" submissions unless you pony up.
Nah, seems pretty random, as far as I can tell. It looks as if the discussions used to be nested, but got broken at some point.
HA! Barely beat you to it :-p
What about the GNAA? I've blissfully forgotten about those and their 'first post' initiation rites... :-)
A man with a 3-digit UID calls a 26-year old girl for old. Something is wrong here.
RealDolls, which are made of PVC and silicone, should not be confused with real dolls, which are made of sugar and spice. and everything nice...
Uncorrection.
Unless you deliver a source for your claim, that is.
He did say "There's many witty men whose brains can't fill their bellies..
Reminds me of the story my father-in-law told me about the TV they had when he was a kid; they'd put in coins to watch television, and every once in a while a man would come to collect.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZdaSWP4WNo