Yes, but after you've had it in overdrive for any length of time it suddenly goes limp for at least 10 minutes.
You can fix that by adding a blue pill to the gas.
Rare but serious side effects include low oil pressure, engine failure, sudden engine acceleration and loss of fuel pressure. Minor side effects include sputtering, backfires, engine vibrations and change in the colour of the headlights.
Consult your mechanic before using any limp chassis fuel additive.
I agree. Apple is not targeting users who just want a phone because that market is heavily saturated and has been commoditized with very small profit margins. Not exactly the kind of market you want to break into unless you're a well established player looking for a way to extend your brand. And Apple doesn't care about people who want a simple, inexpensive phone. Apple wants customers with lots of money (or credit) to spend on expensive products with lots of features and big, fat profit margins.
I would say their big competition in the smartphone arena are Sony Ericsson, Nokia and RIM but this is still a developing market so there's plenty of room for an upstart to come in and dominate with the right product. Eventually, as the cost of smartphones fall, companies will stop making the "just a phone" phones and everyone will be forced into the smartphone market. Apple is betting that an iPhone is what you'll end up choosing.
it's worth pointing out that Microsoft don't even prompt you to set Internet Explorer as your default browser when installing Windows.
I hope you were being sarcastic rather than completely dense but just in case, when you install Windows there is only one browser so by definition it has to be the "default" browser.
Bell is throttling from 4pm to 2am, a 10 hour window. If they have to shape the service for over 40% of the day then they have sorely underestimated their customer's needs and desperately need to upgrade their network.
In Canada it is illegal to use a SIN (Social Insurance Number) to identify a person for the purposes of a financial transaction. Employers can't even use it as a way to track employees.
Not that there aren't plenty of other ways of stealing people's identities but at least the government is impeding one of the easiest.
As for not being able to afford your own mail server - lots of small businesses, schools or non-profits don't have those resources available, so Gmail fills the bill quite nicely.
Any decent hosting package includes a mail server. For about $40/month I have a VPS that can host up to 30 sites each with their own mail server complete with webmail and spam filtering (albeit not as good as Gmail's). I wouldn't consider that unaffordable.
Those videos likely came from private practice runs. Now it seems they're confident enough with the device that they'll do live public demos.
I saw a story about it on the Discovery Channel a few months ago and at that time I believe it was a repeat. I'm thinking that would be considered relatively public.
Are Microsoft employees strapping dynamite on themselves and blowing up people at ISO meetings? I can just see a MS code monkey shouting "Ballmer is Great!" before blowing himself and twenty others to smithereens.
Fortunately they are able to apprehend them before the bombs go off because of the popup on their Windows Vista powered detonators, "Blow yourself up in a useless display of Microsoft loyalty, allow or deny?"
The restriction here is that a Commercial entity, engaged in business, using an American domain name is being expected to conduct business according to American Laws.
The company was doing business using a.com which is international and by definition not a U.S. domain. Think of it as the virtual equivalent of international waters. As much as Americans like to think of.com as U.S.-only the fact is the only true U.S. domains end in.us.
This incident is a perfect example of why ICANN needs to be removed from any one country's control.
I'm not willing to sign up for the premise that a foreign business can do business with a.COM domain name and not be subject to American law. If I'm doing business with someone I'd like to know which Police I need to contact if I need to throw the book at them.
In case you haven't heard of it there is this thing called The Real World(tm). Regardless of where their domain is registered the only police that will be able to help you are those in the country where the company is registered. If I operate a business in Norway and register my domain in Kenya then contacting the Kenyan police won't help you much will it.
I guess someone is too young to know that the OP was referring to "The $64,000 Question" (1955-58).
The GP was alluding to the oft quoted Bill Gates line "640K ought to be enough for anybody" although Gates denies ever saying it. A very clever reference that whooshed over your head.
This sucks, but I think the guy was being a bit naive personally. If he went to a small time local repair shop and got this treatment I'd be more surprised. When you're dealing with a system that is made to handle a high volume of requests you can't expect personally-tailored service - that would be much too expensive for a company to maintain.
Probably the issue tracking system and everything else down the line lacks the ability to account for personal requests: You send in a broken box, they send back a fixed box. I wouldn't even expect the same physical unit to come back, personally. I'm curious how purchased content is handled, though, in the case of a drive failure.
I would agree with you if he hadn't contacted Microsoft beforehand. That fact that he called to verify if they could satisfy his request shows that he wasn't naive. I believe the call centre rep that told him it would be OK was where the mistake was made. I think everyone else in the repair chain did the job they were trained to do.
Anyway, I think the guy had an unrealistic expectation, but then again maybe I've just lowered my expectations of big companies too far. I'm left wondering how this made front page news on slashdot, too.
If a story makes Slashdot then it's on the front page. Unlike a newspaper websites don't have a "back page" in the traditional sense.
If my home is destroyed I don't care if a tornado or a hurricane did it, it's still destroyed. The chance of it being destroyed by a tornado in Nebraska is less than by a hurricane in Florida which will be reflected in the rates for Florida homeowners which is fair. As I replied to the GP, that's the definition of insurance.
The point I was trying to make to the GP is that that is how insurance works. If you live in Nebraska and don't want to share the risk with someone in Florida then only buy from a local carrier (which has it's own risk) or don't buy insurance at all. No one's forcing you to do anything. Just don't whine about it if your home gets destroyed and you have to pay for it yourself.
To use a real life example, does it make sense that the people in Nebraska should have to carry the insurance burden for the people who choose to live in hurricane alley? That's what Florida thinks should be the case.
It's only fair since Florida will carry the insurance burden for all the people in Nebraska that live in Tornado Alley. That's the very definition of insurance. Don't like it, don't buy it. And if your house burns down you can be proud that you didn't have someone else carry your insurance burden. Broke but proud.
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You can fix that by adding a blue pill to the gas.
Rare but serious side effects include low oil pressure, engine failure, sudden engine acceleration and loss of fuel pressure. Minor side effects include sputtering, backfires, engine vibrations and change in the colour of the headlights.
Consult your mechanic before using any limp chassis fuel additive.
I agree. Apple is not targeting users who just want a phone because that market is heavily saturated and has been commoditized with very small profit margins. Not exactly the kind of market you want to break into unless you're a well established player looking for a way to extend your brand. And Apple doesn't care about people who want a simple, inexpensive phone. Apple wants customers with lots of money (or credit) to spend on expensive products with lots of features and big, fat profit margins.
I would say their big competition in the smartphone arena are Sony Ericsson, Nokia and RIM but this is still a developing market so there's plenty of room for an upstart to come in and dominate with the right product. Eventually, as the cost of smartphones fall, companies will stop making the "just a phone" phones and everyone will be forced into the smartphone market. Apple is betting that an iPhone is what you'll end up choosing.
FYI, there is no metric cup.
OK, you're taking it to f
I hope you were being sarcastic rather than completely dense but just in case, when you install Windows there is only one browser so by definition it has to be the "default" browser.
Bell is throttling from 4pm to 2am, a 10 hour window. If they have to shape the service for over 40% of the day then they have sorely underestimated their customer's needs and desperately need to upgrade their network.
In Canada it is illegal to use a SIN (Social Insurance Number) to identify a person for the purposes of a financial transaction. Employers can't even use it as a way to track employees.
Not that there aren't plenty of other ways of stealing people's identities but at least the government is impeding one of the easiest.
As soon as Apple fanboys stop posting as AC then maybe they'll get some respect.
Any decent hosting package includes a mail server. For about $40/month I have a VPS that can host up to 30 sites each with their own mail server complete with webmail and spam filtering (albeit not as good as Gmail's). I wouldn't consider that unaffordable.
Better yet, install a wave motion gun.
If she wanted clovers as well she would be a leprechaun. Would that make her a cereal terrorist?
I saw a story about it on the Discovery Channel a few months ago and at that time I believe it was a repeat. I'm thinking that would be considered relatively public.
Scotty? Was he named after the Chief Engineer of the Enterprise?
I thought it was for-sheep.
(And to make my post at least slightly useful, it's forefathers. )
But not if its a Flock of Seagulls.
Fortunately they are able to apprehend them before the bombs go off because of the popup on their Windows Vista powered detonators, "Blow yourself up in a useless display of Microsoft loyalty, allow or deny?"
I for one welcome our pale skinned, basement dwelling overlords.
If you play it backwards you hear, "Paul is dead, Paul is dead".
Maybe he was referring to funny beer. ;)
Not to mention their children Willn and Cann.
The company was doing business using a
This incident is a perfect example of why ICANN needs to be removed from any one country's control.
In case you haven't heard of it there is this thing called The Real World(tm). Regardless of where their domain is registered the only police that will be able to help you are those in the country where the company is registered. If I operate a business in Norway and register my domain in Kenya then contacting the Kenyan police won't help you much will it.
I guess someone is too young to know that the OP was referring to "The $64,000 Question" (1955-58).
The GP was alluding to the oft quoted Bill Gates line "640K ought to be enough for anybody" although Gates denies ever saying it. A very clever reference that whooshed over your head.
I would agree with you if he hadn't contacted Microsoft beforehand. That fact that he called to verify if they could satisfy his request shows that he wasn't naive. I believe the call centre rep that told him it would be OK was where the mistake was made. I think everyone else in the repair chain did the job they were trained to do.
If a story makes Slashdot then it's on the front page. Unlike a newspaper websites don't have a "back page" in the traditional sense.
If my home is destroyed I don't care if a tornado or a hurricane did it, it's still destroyed. The chance of it being destroyed by a tornado in Nebraska is less than by a hurricane in Florida which will be reflected in the rates for Florida homeowners which is fair. As I replied to the GP, that's the definition of insurance.
The point I was trying to make to the GP is that that is how insurance works. If you live in Nebraska and don't want to share the risk with someone in Florida then only buy from a local carrier (which has it's own risk) or don't buy insurance at all. No one's forcing you to do anything. Just don't whine about it if your home gets destroyed and you have to pay for it yourself.
It's only fair since Florida will carry the insurance burden for all the people in Nebraska that live in Tornado Alley. That's the very definition of insurance. Don't like it, don't buy it. And if your house burns down you can be proud that you didn't have someone else carry your insurance burden. Broke but proud.