And now that Apple owns it, they can reshape the credits, change policies on song repeats (pursuant to licensing agency negotiations, of course), and move the full purchases from Amazon to iTunes.
So this could be a way to land squarely in the market and start influencing it as it wishes. Perhaps Lala will be like iTunes itself: not actually meant to turn a profit, but to encourage people to buy iPods.
Stop giving africa money and give them a 1 shot chance at learning to take care of themselves through farming and the like. If they don't take it, oh well, sometimes you need to walk away and cut your losses.
I should clarify that by "economic assistance" I did not mean "handouts" but rather incentives, education, training, tools, and the like. I work for international nonprofits; I know handouts are fleeting solutions, while investments and education are lasting.
Also, it's hard to "walk away and cut your losses" when they're attacking your cargo ships with rockets.
If not the government, then who? Saucer People? Mole Men? It's not a crackpot conspiracy theory to accuse the government when they've the most likely candidate, especially when they confirm it for us by stumbling into action to investigate the leak.
If much of the traffic was from Wall Street, then it wouldn't be hard to imagine corporate espionage, or other kinds of snooping, where recording pager traffic would be a useful addition to other schemes.
One place I worked at didn't tell me there'd be 24h on-call until after I'd moved my family 800 miles. Oh, and it was an hourly position, with no stipulations for "on call". Yeah, that whole situation was fun.
I bet you learned something about contract negotation!
References to "iPhone3,1" was first discovered in the iPhone firmware files back in August, but this seems to be the first time that it has been spotted "in the wild". Apple similarly began testing the iPhone 3GS (iPhone2,1) back in October of 2008 about 8 months ahead of its launch. At the time, the usage was similarly focused in the San Francisco Bay Area where Apple is located.
So, if history repeats itself, the actual product will be released sometime in April or May.
Hey, I have some lovely post-post-post modern retro-reconstructionist works that would make a great display somewhere. They fractalize the repetitive nature of our increasingly vapid 21st century existences via surrealist digital sculpture and open mike poetry reads by fast fading reality TV pseduocelebrities.
I have no mod points, but this made me laugh. Thanks. (former art major here!)
As someone who professionally provided tech support for Macs for more than 15 years, I have to disagree with you. I do think that when Macs have problems, they have BIG problems, but overall they have proven (to me anyway) that they are generally much more reliable than systems made by Windows PC vendors.
As for this SquareTrade article, it wouldn't surprise me if Apple fell a few points behind other manufacturers, though I cannot possibly imagine why someone would buy a new Mac and get a SquareTrade warranty instead of Apple's excellent 3-year warranty. Makes me wonder if the Macs covered by SquareTrade are largely used? You can't buy them at Target.
I also find it very odd that this year's SquareTrade report is almost entirely the reverse of last year's, when HP came out on top. Also, Lenovo is calling shenanigans on this year's data.
Even worse, you don't own a cat. It owns you, and it's pissed about it. Every cat owner knows this. Now we know where Skynet will get its desire to rule the world.
They should have simulated a canine brain. Then the robots would be begging to make us happy.
"Verizon will charge $50 for each additional gigabyte over the 5Gb limit on the unlimited data plan." Buh? Wha? Parsing failure. Unlimited...charging for additional usage.....BRAIN ASPLODE
This is not new. Verizon's "unlimited" $60/month EVDO service has had a 5gb limit for years. It's printed in the contract, and sales reps are supposed to alert you to this before you sign the dotted line. (I don't know how many actually do, but they're supposed to.)
Yes, the Jews only follow the Old Testament, although they call it the Tanakh. It is comprised of the Torah (first five books), the Nevi'im (the prophets), and the Ketuvim (Psalms, Proverbs, Song of Songs, Esther, and a few others).
I see from looking around online that you are correct. I may be think of Verizon's "unlimited" EVDO data service, which had a notice in the fine print that stated a 5gb limit (or maybe it was 10gb). The customer rep pointed this out to me when I signed up a year ago. I've since cancelled it, since I no longer need it.
I don't use 5gb/data a month anyway, so it is a moot point.
Two thoughts for you. First, actually, you can just buy the New Testament without the Old. Second, the Old is still made reference to by the New, and some parts of it (e.g. poetic parts about relationships to God) are rather beautiful and not nullified by the New -- in fact they provide some connection.
In a park far away, two statues stood staring at each other across a fountain. One was a beautiful woman, the other a handsome man, both naked. One day, an angel appeared, waved his hand, and brought the statues to life. "You have been staring at each other for so long," said the angel, "that I would like to give you 30 minutes to enjoy each other's company."
The two people grinned at each other and ran into the bushes. The angel heard much giggling and merriment from them as he waited. Then, sweaty and out of breath, the two came back.
The angel looked at his watch. "You still have another ten minutes!"
"Awesome!" said the man to the woman. "This time, you hold the pigeon and I'll shit on his head!"
"How many times have you bit into a piece of fruit only to find that you're also chomping on a sticker label?"
Erm, never? Because I always wash my fruits (as in apples, pears) first before eating them?
Even stupider, they're talking about laser etching on citrus fruit. You peel those fruits before you eat them (well, most people do). There are no stickers inside the fruit.
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Mod parent up! That's a killer joke.
And now that Apple owns it, they can reshape the credits, change policies on song repeats (pursuant to licensing agency negotiations, of course), and move the full purchases from Amazon to iTunes.
So this could be a way to land squarely in the market and start influencing it as it wishes. Perhaps Lala will be like iTunes itself: not actually meant to turn a profit, but to encourage people to buy iPods.
FBI: Why do you rob banks?
Willie Sutton: Because that's where the money is.
Stop giving africa money and give them a 1 shot chance at learning to take care of themselves through farming and the like. If they don't take it, oh well, sometimes you need to walk away and cut your losses.
I should clarify that by "economic assistance" I did not mean "handouts" but rather incentives, education, training, tools, and the like. I work for international nonprofits; I know handouts are fleeting solutions, while investments and education are lasting.
Also, it's hard to "walk away and cut your losses" when they're attacking your cargo ships with rockets.
There is an even more obvious solution: bomb Somalia, or at least the coast that lays next to the shipping lines, and burn it down to the bedrock.
And there is an even more obvious solution: provide enough economic assistance to the communities involved so that they abandon piracy.
But bombing might be more fun, at least for us.
If not the government, then who? Saucer People? Mole Men? It's not a crackpot conspiracy theory to accuse the government when they've the most likely candidate, especially when they confirm it for us by stumbling into action to investigate the leak.
If much of the traffic was from Wall Street, then it wouldn't be hard to imagine corporate espionage, or other kinds of snooping, where recording pager traffic would be a useful addition to other schemes.
One place I worked at didn't tell me there'd be 24h on-call until after I'd moved my family 800 miles. Oh, and it was an hourly position, with no stipulations for "on call". Yeah, that whole situation was fun.
I bet you learned something about contract negotation!
...or, uh, around July. (since I apparently cannot count this morning)
...at MacRumors. Relevant quote:
References to "iPhone3,1" was first discovered in the iPhone firmware files back in August, but this seems to be the first time that it has been spotted "in the wild". Apple similarly began testing the iPhone 3GS (iPhone2,1) back in October of 2008 about 8 months ahead of its launch. At the time, the usage was similarly focused in the San Francisco Bay Area where Apple is located.
So, if history repeats itself, the actual product will be released sometime in April or May.
every single president in the US or leader elsewhere has read that book.
I bet half the college students in the U.S. have read it, too. What's your point?
Hey, I have some lovely post-post-post modern retro-reconstructionist works that would make a great display somewhere. They fractalize the repetitive nature of our increasingly vapid 21st century existences via surrealist digital sculpture and open mike poetry reads by fast fading reality TV pseduocelebrities.
I have no mod points, but this made me laugh. Thanks. (former art major here!)
Sir, may we interest you in a nice search engine?
Yes, someone pointed out the very same thing you are stating.
That was me, posting in both places.
And I agree with you on your other comments.
As someone who professionally provided tech support for Macs for more than 15 years, I have to disagree with you. I do think that when Macs have problems, they have BIG problems, but overall they have proven (to me anyway) that they are generally much more reliable than systems made by Windows PC vendors.
As for this SquareTrade article, it wouldn't surprise me if Apple fell a few points behind other manufacturers, though I cannot possibly imagine why someone would buy a new Mac and get a SquareTrade warranty instead of Apple's excellent 3-year warranty. Makes me wonder if the Macs covered by SquareTrade are largely used? You can't buy them at Target.
I also find it very odd that this year's SquareTrade report is almost entirely the reverse of last year's, when HP came out on top. Also, Lenovo is calling shenanigans on this year's data.
Maybe you want to start a private social network, geared to one specific group of people.
There's always Ning or Flux... but maybe you want something really custom.
Even worse, you don't own a cat. It owns you, and it's pissed about it. Every cat owner knows this. Now we know where Skynet will get its desire to rule the world.
They should have simulated a canine brain. Then the robots would be begging to make us happy.
Actually it's only 8, because page 9 is a page of odd links to other digital products.
BTW, here's the results page.
You know, Beck is just begging someone to set up a few new web sites:
What's one site? And I'm sure we can get creative. DidGlennBeckDanceNakedAtAGayBarIn2002.com?
This is not new. Verizon's "unlimited" $60/month EVDO service has had a 5gb limit for years. It's printed in the contract, and sales reps are supposed to alert you to this before you sign the dotted line. (I don't know how many actually do, but they're supposed to.)
Yes, the Jews only follow the Old Testament, although they call it the Tanakh. It is comprised of the Torah (first five books), the Nevi'im (the prophets), and the Ketuvim (Psalms, Proverbs, Song of Songs, Esther, and a few others).
I see from looking around online that you are correct. I may be think of Verizon's "unlimited" EVDO data service, which had a notice in the fine print that stated a 5gb limit (or maybe it was 10gb). The customer rep pointed this out to me when I signed up a year ago. I've since cancelled it, since I no longer need it.
I don't use 5gb/data a month anyway, so it is a moot point.
Two thoughts for you. First, actually, you can just buy the New Testament without the Old. Second, the Old is still made reference to by the New, and some parts of it (e.g. poetic parts about relationships to God) are rather beautiful and not nullified by the New -- in fact they provide some connection.
iPhone's data plan is $30/month. I think that, technically, it has a 5gb monthly cap on bandwidth.
It does not include tethering, though I wish it did.
Reminds me of a joke.
In a park far away, two statues stood staring at each other across a fountain. One was a beautiful woman, the other a handsome man, both naked. One day, an angel appeared, waved his hand, and brought the statues to life. "You have been staring at each other for so long," said the angel, "that I would like to give you 30 minutes to enjoy each other's company."
The two people grinned at each other and ran into the bushes. The angel heard much giggling and merriment from them as he waited. Then, sweaty and out of breath, the two came back.
The angel looked at his watch. "You still have another ten minutes!"
"Awesome!" said the man to the woman. "This time, you hold the pigeon and I'll shit on his head!"
Even stupider, they're talking about laser etching on citrus fruit. You peel those fruits before you eat them (well, most people do). There are no stickers inside the fruit.