Guess what? The expensive T-Mobile connection at Starbucks would have required a bunch of set-up and configuration, too.
If a single WEP key is too daunting for her (and can't be explained to her in under 30 seconds), then perhaps this whole "com-pu-ter" thing is not for her.
Or, for that matter, pick up a used X-Box for about $125 and use the 007 hack to load Linux on it. Then you don't have a PC tower taking up precious restaurant space, just a tiny game console tucked under the counter somewhere.
Anybody wired enough to feel they need their laptop with them when they are drinking coffee at a mom & pop cafe is probably one of us geeks... at least, enough of one to know how to set a WEP key.
I had the same thought. A thief would comsider it much easier to fence a $2000 laptop than a $600 gun. That's why I like to keep my iBook in one of those little backpacks that college kids use for their books.
"Slippery Slope" arguments are almost never valid.
Real tyranny is not subtle or gradual, it's sudden and brutal. A waiting period to buy a handgun will not lead to your hunting rifle being taken away. A ban of "partial birth" abortions will not lead to women being locked up in breeding chambers with no rights.
Reasonable people accept reasonable intrusions on their freedoms for the sake of a smooth running society in which people get along as well as can be expected. Put down the Ayn Rand novel, and join the real world.
Maybe I'm just lucky. I trained for the New York Marathon, which involves running over 500 miles over 6 months or so. I carried by little 5GB iPod, listening to books on tape, music, etc.
If you are training for the New York, you probably have developed much more graceful mechanics than the people complaining of frequent HD problems.
Instead of insisting on a solid-state MP3 player, those who think the iPod can't handle their jogging should work on inproving their stride. They way they are running, they are probably far more likely to damage their backs and knees than their iPod hard drives.
I don't need to carry around 20 gigs of music anyway, that's excessive.
Funny you should say that. I have a 10 Gig iPod, and I'm considering selling it to a friend and buying the 30. At 10 GB, I have almost my entire pop music collection with me at all times. At 30 GB, I will be able to have every last entire album I own, along with every song I've downloaded, and still have room to store lots of data files and any music I buy over the next couple years. From my perspective, it's not "excessive"... it's "enough."
It's not an announcement. It's a rumor on a Mac rumors web site.
It will not come out right after Chritmas, but rather it will ship on the same day as the 17" CRT Bondi iMac, the AMD x86 Macintosh tower, and the tablet-style iBook.
The problem is one of human greed. I've thrown class action invitations against my phone company, my mortgage broker, my insurance company and several others, into the trash, and I've had people tell me I'm nuts for passing up on "free money."
The truth is, joining the suits would have meant maybe another $20 - $50 in my pocket, but the only way you can bring a class action is if you get enough "plaintiffs" to join in. I would prefer that these suits not happen, because they will ultimately mean I'll be paying higher phone bills, brokerage fees, and insurance rates, while asshole lawyers make millions off the companies which provide me these services. In most cases, even if I'm unhappy with the company (as was the case with the phone company), the issues involved in the lawsuits were never issues over which I believed I was treated unfairly.
The only weapon I have to stop these frivolous suits from happening is the choice to not participate in them. Dump toxic waste into my drinking water, and maybe I'll join a lawsuit against you, but I want nothing to do with a suit against Blockbuster Video for charging excessive late fees. (Note: That was an actual lawsuit, which Blockbuster settled by giving out a couple free rentals to each customer and millions of dollars to the lawyers.)
I own an iPod, and fully expect the battery to run down in a few more months, and I refuse to join this suit. I wish I had the means to persuade others to do the same.
I realize the batteries are custom for a reason, but why couldn't you buy a replacement battery that just snaps in, similar to a cell phone battery?
You mean like the snap-in battery for my cell phone, which snaps out all the time just from rattling around in my pocket? No thanks. I'd rather have a battery that takes an extra ten minutes to swap out than one that doesn't stay connected.
because they wanted a closed market for repair parts (which is what apple has been about since its earliest days).
I've owned many Apple products over the last decade or so, and never once have I bought a "repair part" from Apple. Every single replacement part, as well as every single expansion component, which I've ever bought (including a G4 CPU replacement for my G3 tower) came from a third party. WTF are you talking about?
I have a very simple system for dealing with this.
1. Look at the running time the theater lists.
2. Go to IMDB and find out the running time of the actual movie.
If the difference between the two is about 20 minutes or more, you are dealing with one of those theaters which bundles a package of commercials before the film. Don't go to that theater, and send the management a note explaining why you will allow other theaters to meet your overpriced popcorn needs.
I've had very little trouble finding theaters around the Twin Cities who do not waste my time with Coke and Fandango commercials, getting right to the movie after two or three previews. They have my business, while the ad whores don't.
Movie trailers are advertisements. If you like getting ads for free, just post your raw e-mail address on this site and a few others, and you will soon get plenty of them.
Not in the UK: you can't fire anyone without good reason.
So I guess all those entire coal mining towns in Northern England that were "made redundant" were just a myth. Nobody ever losed their job on your great, bejeweled isle. Got it.
we've got lower unemployment than the US and haven't been in recession since the early 1990s
Except that the standard of living in England during a "boom" year is lower than the US during a recession these days. Heck, even a Canadian who does the same job as you probably has a much bigger house, and 1.5 more cars. (I say 1.5 more, because the Canadian probably has two full-size vehicles, while you are puttering around in a tiny little MG that sprays more oil than an Exxon tanker with a drunk pilot.)
The sun set on the Brittish Empire over a hundred years ago, and most of your former colonies matter more than you now. Get over it.
The problem with that plan is that it assumes that the Riders are Sauron's only resource. Had they attempted such a scheme, the ring probably would have tainted the minds of the humans and dwarfs involved, and before long they would covet the ring which the elves were "taking for themselves."
I would put "Gone With The Wind" ahead of "To Kill A Mockingbird", simply because Mockingbird started out with a great book and became a great movie, while Gone was a long, dull book which even the cast could hardly stand to read in preperation for their roles, and was turned into one of the greatest films of all time.
That said, I'll take the LOTR set over either of them.
"Props" may be fairly recent, but "Propers" definately goes back a bit further than the 90s.
Back in the 60s, Aretha Franklin sang the line "give me my propers when I get home" in Respect by Otis Redding. (Of course, in that context, "Respect" was being used as a euphemism for sex.)
Just about everybody who does anything is in it for the money.
If you want to do Big Science, you need research grants. If you want research grants, you need attention. If you generate hype from alarming and scary predictions, you get attention, which leads to grants.
I'm not saying that this report is B.S. I'm just pointing out why many people choose not to get all flustered just because another climate research team has told us that the sky is falling. You can find plenty of reports from the same institutions 20 years ago which paint a very different picture than what happened.
So far, the only thing global climate researchers have demonstrated beyond debate is that mankind still doesn't understand global climate very well.
Why are you so careful not to name them here? If they suck so much, then flame away. It's not like they can send your UID a C&D for posting on Slashdot.
Slashdot Mirror
A rumor followed by a C&D letter with the threat of a lawsuit is two weeks of free publicity for the product.
'Nuff said.
... she would surely be able to handle a simple web proxy form, but not a WEP password.
Have you ever used a Mac's "Airport" connection with a WEP!? It's less work that setting up web proxy settings.
If a single WEP key is too daunting for her (and can't be explained to her in under 30 seconds), then perhaps this whole "com-pu-ter" thing is not for her.
Or, for that matter, pick up a used X-Box for about $125 and use the 007 hack to load Linux on it. Then you don't have a PC tower taking up precious restaurant space, just a tiny game console tucked under the counter somewhere.
Anybody wired enough to feel they need their laptop with them when they are drinking coffee at a mom & pop cafe is probably one of us geeks... at least, enough of one to know how to set a WEP key.
(Dr. Strangelove quotes never seem to get old, at least not to me.)
I had the same thought. A thief would comsider it much easier to fence a $2000 laptop than a $600 gun. That's why I like to keep my iBook in one of those little backpacks that college kids use for their books.
Real tyranny is not subtle or gradual, it's sudden and brutal. A waiting period to buy a handgun will not lead to your hunting rifle being taken away. A ban of "partial birth" abortions will not lead to women being locked up in breeding chambers with no rights.
Reasonable people accept reasonable intrusions on their freedoms for the sake of a smooth running society in which people get along as well as can be expected. Put down the Ayn Rand novel, and join the real world.
If you are training for the New York, you probably have developed much more graceful mechanics than the people complaining of frequent HD problems.
Instead of insisting on a solid-state MP3 player, those who think the iPod can't handle their jogging should work on inproving their stride. They way they are running, they are probably far more likely to damage their backs and knees than their iPod hard drives.
Funny you should say that. I have a 10 Gig iPod, and I'm considering selling it to a friend and buying the 30. At 10 GB, I have almost my entire pop music collection with me at all times. At 30 GB, I will be able to have every last entire album I own, along with every song I've downloaded, and still have room to store lots of data files and any music I buy over the next couple years. From my perspective, it's not "excessive"... it's "enough."
It will not come out right after Chritmas, but rather it will ship on the same day as the 17" CRT Bondi iMac, the AMD x86 Macintosh tower, and the tablet-style iBook.
And a fire hazard. A big gay fire hazard. Merry Christmas.
Steering back on topic, is there anybody left on the entire damned Internet who didn't already know about the Welhelm scream by now?
The truth is, joining the suits would have meant maybe another $20 - $50 in my pocket, but the only way you can bring a class action is if you get enough "plaintiffs" to join in. I would prefer that these suits not happen, because they will ultimately mean I'll be paying higher phone bills, brokerage fees, and insurance rates, while asshole lawyers make millions off the companies which provide me these services. In most cases, even if I'm unhappy with the company (as was the case with the phone company), the issues involved in the lawsuits were never issues over which I believed I was treated unfairly.
The only weapon I have to stop these frivolous suits from happening is the choice to not participate in them. Dump toxic waste into my drinking water, and maybe I'll join a lawsuit against you, but I want nothing to do with a suit against Blockbuster Video for charging excessive late fees. (Note: That was an actual lawsuit, which Blockbuster settled by giving out a couple free rentals to each customer and millions of dollars to the lawyers.)
I own an iPod, and fully expect the battery to run down in a few more months, and I refuse to join this suit. I wish I had the means to persuade others to do the same.
You mean like the snap-in battery for my cell phone, which snaps out all the time just from rattling around in my pocket? No thanks. I'd rather have a battery that takes an extra ten minutes to swap out than one that doesn't stay connected.
I've owned many Apple products over the last decade or so, and never once have I bought a "repair part" from Apple. Every single replacement part, as well as every single expansion component, which I've ever bought (including a G4 CPU replacement for my G3 tower) came from a third party. WTF are you talking about?
1. Look at the running time the theater lists.
2. Go to IMDB and find out the running time of the actual movie.
If the difference between the two is about 20 minutes or more, you are dealing with one of those theaters which bundles a package of commercials before the film. Don't go to that theater, and send the management a note explaining why you will allow other theaters to meet your overpriced popcorn needs.
I've had very little trouble finding theaters around the Twin Cities who do not waste my time with Coke and Fandango commercials, getting right to the movie after two or three previews. They have my business, while the ad whores don't.
Movie trailers are advertisements. If you like getting ads for free, just post your raw e-mail address on this site and a few others, and you will soon get plenty of them.
So I guess all those entire coal mining towns in Northern England that were "made redundant" were just a myth. Nobody ever losed their job on your great, bejeweled isle. Got it.
we've got lower unemployment than the US and haven't been in recession since the early 1990s
Except that the standard of living in England during a "boom" year is lower than the US during a recession these days. Heck, even a Canadian who does the same job as you probably has a much bigger house, and 1.5 more cars. (I say 1.5 more, because the Canadian probably has two full-size vehicles, while you are puttering around in a tiny little MG that sprays more oil than an Exxon tanker with a drunk pilot.)
The sun set on the Brittish Empire over a hundred years ago, and most of your former colonies matter more than you now. Get over it.
The problem with that plan is that it assumes that the Riders are Sauron's only resource. Had they attempted such a scheme, the ring probably would have tainted the minds of the humans and dwarfs involved, and before long they would covet the ring which the elves were "taking for themselves."
That said, I'll take the LOTR set over either of them.
Back in the 60s, Aretha Franklin sang the line "give me my propers when I get home" in Respect by Otis Redding. (Of course, in that context, "Respect" was being used as a euphemism for sex.)
I'm sure somebody could cite an earlier example.
Just about everybody who does anything is in it for the money.
If you want to do Big Science, you need research grants. If you want research grants, you need attention. If you generate hype from alarming and scary predictions, you get attention, which leads to grants.
I'm not saying that this report is B.S. I'm just pointing out why many people choose not to get all flustered just because another climate research team has told us that the sky is falling. You can find plenty of reports from the same institutions 20 years ago which paint a very different picture than what happened.
So far, the only thing global climate researchers have demonstrated beyond debate is that mankind still doesn't understand global climate very well.
I live in another suburb of Minneapolis, and thankfully within range of DSL service. I get a broadband drop from Qworst, and use VISI for my ISP.
At least as far as the next 5-10 years are concerned, I intend to use DSL availablity as a main factor in deciding where to buy a house.
Why are you so careful not to name them here? If they suck so much, then flame away. It's not like they can send your UID a C&D for posting on Slashdot.