Re:You know... things just don't amaze me.
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When it looks fake, it ruins the experience. Watching the Burly Man scene in Reloaded made me think that a trailer for The Matrix The Video Game had been inserted into the middle of the movie.
The Lord of the Rings did a wonderful job, there were very few things that pulled you out of the experience and when there were ones, they were short.
The Matrix sequels used a lot less practical effects than The Matrix did. As a result, their effects didn't look as good as the original or as The Lord of the Rings trilogy that made extensive use of practical effects.
I don't think it would affect the size all that much. Cellphones are fairly tiny and their batteries are replacable. spring contacts aren't all that bulky.
Most cell phones don't have a hard drive built into them. In fact, no cell phone has a 1.8" hard drive built into it. Apple wanted to make this thing small and durable. A user serviceable battery had to go as a result of other more important (to Apple and some customers) requirements.
I have to wonder, most diehard Mac fans I know are 'into the environment' as well. How environmentally sound is it to throw an iPod away just because the battery is dead?
I fretted over the battery situation before I got my first iPod about two years ago. I finally decided if the battery died and Apple hadn't put a program in place to replace them by then that I'd just leave it plugged into AC and connected to my receiver in the living room. It spends a lot of its time in that location anyway. Well, my battery never died, I just ended up selling my old 10GB for $200 to a friend and buying a new 20GB so that I'd have a dock with a line-level output for the receiver in the living room.
Tell that to iTunes. iTunes shares music using Rendezvous and it does it very quickly. I assume that ithe host sends the library XML file to the client and then lets the client use that to request streams of the files. At any rate, it does it quickly as the HomePod should be able to do.
OK, apparently he didn't actually add a G5 and I forgot that there was no stock fan in the Cube (I'm thinking of the LCD iMac), but I still think this thing is going to overheat due to the lack of a chimney effect.
So, basically he added a G5 and changed the airflow from a vertical chimney configuration to a horizontal configuration. Unless he changed the stock fan (a) this thing blows out the front (b) it'll overheat.
I guess this is something that we will not every know the "truth" of.
Of course we do. It was the Wright Brothers. If anyone else had successfully beaten them to powered flight, they and their followers have had 100 years to prove it. And no one has. So no one did.
Apple has these things called Apple Stores. Those, combined with other physical presense Apple has in various states mean that you almost always pay tax when shopping at http://store.apple.com/.
"that guy with the abused 17-inch Powerbook's" extortion campaign
I'm not sure what you're talking about. Maybe that's part of it. Another reason was this guy's campaign had merit. From what you've said of the other one, it doesn't sound like it did since they were abused.
Apple only announced their $99 battery replacement plan four days before these guys got their domain name. It's plausible that Apple's announcement was a result of the campaign waged by these guys before they were able to edit the video and get the site up.
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When it looks fake, it ruins the experience. Watching the Burly Man scene in Reloaded made me think that a trailer for The Matrix The Video Game had been inserted into the middle of the movie.
The Lord of the Rings did a wonderful job, there were very few things that pulled you out of the experience and when there were ones, they were short.
The Matrix sequels used a lot less practical effects than The Matrix did. As a result, their effects didn't look as good as the original or as The Lord of the Rings trilogy that made extensive use of practical effects.
You're wrong.
Why plastic? Why not make wooden pieces?
Ugh. That's one of those hideous looking warehouse-churches!
The christ wasn't born on Christmas. Christians simply wanted to userp the existing pagan holiday of the people they were trying to convert.
I fretted over the battery situation before I got my first iPod about two years ago. I finally decided if the battery died and Apple hadn't put a program in place to replace them by then that I'd just leave it plugged into AC and connected to my receiver in the living room. It spends a lot of its time in that location anyway. Well, my battery never died, I just ended up selling my old 10GB for $200 to a friend and buying a new 20GB so that I'd have a dock with a line-level output for the receiver in the living room.
Apple's laptop batteries are actually pretty cool. What with the built-in charge indicator and everything.
It's illegal to record a conversation without at least one participant's consent to. Since they were part of the conversation, it was legal.
Those ads they spray painted were graphiti to begin with.
Yes, a hard drive.
Tell that to iTunes. iTunes shares music using Rendezvous and it does it very quickly. I assume that ithe host sends the library XML file to the client and then lets the client use that to request streams of the files. At any rate, it does it quickly as the HomePod should be able to do.
Heck, there is already jRendezvous.
Does anyone know what was fixed in Mail? How about Address Book?
Why? Because independent music isn't as good as major label music?
Ani DiFranco has had songs in the top ten on iTunes Music Store. I think that supports your theory (and mine).
OK, apparently he didn't actually add a G5 and I forgot that there was no stock fan in the Cube (I'm thinking of the LCD iMac), but I still think this thing is going to overheat due to the lack of a chimney effect.
So, basically he added a G5 and changed the airflow from a vertical chimney configuration to a horizontal configuration. Unless he changed the stock fan (a) this thing blows out the front (b) it'll overheat.
iTunes 4.1 checks for read errors.
That was a MagLev train.
There is a lot of software development in France. Perhaps most of it is done by American companies, but it is there.
Apple has these things called Apple Stores. Those, combined with other physical presense Apple has in various states mean that you almost always pay tax when shopping at http://store.apple.com/.
I'm not sure what you're talking about. Maybe that's part of it. Another reason was this guy's campaign had merit. From what you've said of the other one, it doesn't sound like it did since they were abused.
No HCI expert will recommend a wizard.
The Ipod has a one year warranty.
Apple only announced their $99 battery replacement plan four days before these guys got their domain name. It's plausible that Apple's announcement was a result of the campaign waged by these guys before they were able to edit the video and get the site up.