Don't put words in my mouth. I never said I advocate charging per use for any kind of e-mail, and I never will.
All I said was that if you want to stop spam, you gotta make it cost companies more to send it than they hope to get back. There are a lot of ways that a consumer can cost a company money, many of which are perfectly legal. Your habbit of calling their 800 numbers is along the lines I was talking about.
If that was your point, then it had nothing to do with my point, which was that the iMac is the perfect dorm system for a typical college kid.
One small machine for web, e-mail, DVD, CD, TV, games, and Office apps. When I was in school, my old 8086 PC was huge. Throw in a TV set, stereo, VCR, etc... We barely had room to sleep. (and we liked it that way, dag nabbit! You kids got it too easy!)
The under-rated G3 chip is damn fast, IBM still plans on using them for a lot of their heavy-duty servers. So far, photoshop is one of the few programs that takes full advantage of the G4 anyway, so unless you are doing a lot of graphics work, the iMac has plenty of power.
Linux zealots will of course want to know that the iMac runs their favorite free OS. Go to LinuxPPC.org for more info.
Simple. Set up your mom with a 386 and spend all your evenings on the phone helping her figure out how to dial out ("hey son, what does Kernel Panic mean?"), or get her to buy an iMac, and wait for her to send you an e-mail telling you about the spiffy web page she built. Your call.
If you are a CS major, or perhaps plan on doing a lot of serious Photoshop work, then a G4 is definately the way to go... but the iMac is more than enough machine for, say, a Marketing student.
I wouldn't trade my tower for anything, but then I'm not part of the demographic that the iMac is for.
I also have some HK gear. Pretty good, for the money.
In answer to your question, the entire sound system was designed and built at HK's lab. The speakers, the amp, and the optional iSub USB subwoofer, are all Apple-branded components made by Harmon Kardon.
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8. SPAM works, because it is so much cheaper than mass-mailings that a return of one customer per 10,000 messages will probably pay for the costs, and everything else is pure profit.
The only way we can reduce spam is by making it cost something to send it out... and a complaint is not considered much of a cost to the sort people that use spam.
My point is that I don't think it is valid to say that the rights of either man was violated. Both were seeking public positions, and both knew that there was a certain ammount of additional scrutiny that comes with taking a job with so much responsibility.
Would I exect my auto mechanic to live up to such standards and accept being watched that closely? No.
There was a day when we expected more for our leaders, not less. Unfortunately, neither of the main candidates for president this time around inspires much reason for hope in this area.
If you don't whip out the Chief Executive in front of an employee, you are less likely to have your "privacy" invaded in a sexual harrassment lawsuit.
Furthermore, if you refrain from getting overweight interns that are your daugher's age to give you hummers while you are in the office talking on the phone, the whole world is less likely to find out about your weird cigar fetish.
Also, if you resist the urge to lie about your frequent at-work affairs during a civil trial, you are far less likely to be found in contempt of court and fined $90,000.
As presidents go, we can do a lot worse that Clinton (and often have), but I'm sick of all this pathetic whining about how unfairly he was treated. If you think real hard, I'm sure you can come up with a better poster boy for privacy than this.
iMacs are for consumers, not professionals. Your mom can check her e-mail just fine with a G3.
If you are doing work that requires G4 power, you probably want the expandablity of a tower anyway.
On the bright side, the iMac is the ultimate dorm room machine. A fast computer, a DVD player, Harmon Kardon sound... pick up a USB TV tuner and you have a complete home entertainment system that fits on the desk underneath your lofted bed. Were I an 18 year old kid again, I would be all about this thing.
If you had read the article, or any of several out on the web today, you would know that 1) It does not work like a touchpad. 2) It does not use a trackball for movement. 3) The picture at Insider is not what it looks like.
I hate to say I told you so... actually, it's kind of fun to say I told you so.
Three new Macs, and none of them are cubes. The new mouse looks nothing like the "photo" that Insider published. OS X beta will be out in September, not this week.
Rumors turning out to be wrong all over the place. This is why they are taking a beating. They ought to change their name to "MacOutsider", because they clearly do not have the inside dish. I can get better information by having lunch with an Apple VAR once or twice a year.
I'm with you on that. Bruce Campbell and A. Whitney Brown were two of the few celebrities out there with homebrew vanity pages worth visiting. I even had links to both on my own page... but now Campbell's site totally sucks.
Ah, but it's a new Beetle body (more plastic)... and it happens to be a Golf, not a Gulf...
Okay.
s/Gulf/Golf/
However it's spelled and whatever it's made of, it is still a poor substitute for the Jetta. Let's face it, the new Beetle is a car for people who want to pretend they are still hippies, even though they haven't actually seen a tab of acid since going to a Grateful Dead concert in 1974.
If only VW had put the engine in the back again... Lift the body and put on a Harley fork, and you had one heck of a chopper trike.
I agree, except reckless driving violations can sometimes be hard to prove after the fact.
You could easilly pass a cell phone law that does not require troopers to pull you over, but will get you an extra fine or ticket whenever you are in an accident or pulled over for a different offense.
(Minnesota has that with seat belts. If you have a passenger in the front not buckled up, another $100 is added to your speeding ticket.)
Just yet another Canadian the world is blessed with. Thanks Canaduh.
Edison was born in Ohio, which is very much not in Canada. His first profitable invention, the Edison Universal Stock Printer was built in New York... also not Canada. He then spent most of his career in Menlo Park, New Jersey. Again, not Canada.
His only connection to Canada was that he took a job as a Telegraph assistant with a company in Toronto when he was 16 (and invented an automatic transiever so he could sleep on the job). He was still a teen when he moved to the US.
It adds profound resonance to Apple's "here's to the crazy ones" commercial, don't you think?
"Here's to the ones who thought they could talk to martians. The ones who shocked animals to death. The ones who got too much Mercury in their blood stream..."
What the hell... I got plenty o' karma to burn on an off-topic rant, so you win today, troll:
The mathematical proof-of-concept for radio was first submitted by a brittish mathemetician named James Clerk Maxwell. Shortly afterwards, Heinrich Hine made a working radio that transmitted a signal about 5 feet. Marconi introduced the Wireless Telegraph a couple years later in 1874.
Interestingly enough, Hine is quickly joining Tesla in modern folklore as another "lost" or "forgotten" inventor. Like Tesla, his name is often attatched to crackpot inventions by scam artists looking to add an air of legitimacy to their fake machines.
"This [generator, motor, time-machine, widget] was origianally conceived by [Tesla, Hine] and has been reconstructed based on his long-lost lab notes. Big corporations, who have always had it in for this great inventor, are doing their best to cover it up, but I will happilly sell you the plans to build your own for $20. Better yet, join my pyramid scheme... er... I mean distribution network and help me save the world from the eeeevil corporations that are trying to run out lives!"
Both Tesla and Hine deserve better than these morons.
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All I said was that if you want to stop spam, you gotta make it cost companies more to send it than they hope to get back. There are a lot of ways that a consumer can cost a company money, many of which are perfectly legal. Your habbit of calling their 800 numbers is along the lines I was talking about.
One small machine for web, e-mail, DVD, CD, TV, games, and Office apps. When I was in school, my old 8086 PC was huge. Throw in a TV set, stereo, VCR, etc... We barely had room to sleep. (and we liked it that way, dag nabbit! You kids got it too easy!)
The under-rated G3 chip is damn fast, IBM still plans on using them for a lot of their heavy-duty servers. So far, photoshop is one of the few programs that takes full advantage of the G4 anyway, so unless you are doing a lot of graphics work, the iMac has plenty of power.
Linux zealots will of course want to know that the iMac runs their favorite free OS. Go to LinuxPPC.org for more info.
The cube is real. I'll be jiggered.
Simple. Set up your mom with a 386 and spend all your evenings on the phone helping her figure out how to dial out ("hey son, what does Kernel Panic mean?"), or get her to buy an iMac, and wait for her to send you an e-mail telling you about the spiffy web page she built. Your call.
I wouldn't trade my tower for anything, but then I'm not part of the demographic that the iMac is for.
In answer to your question, the entire sound system was designed and built at HK's lab. The speakers, the amp, and the optional iSub USB subwoofer, are all Apple-branded components made by Harmon Kardon.
8. SPAM works, because it is so much cheaper than mass-mailings that a return of one customer per 10,000 messages will probably pay for the costs, and everything else is pure profit.
The only way we can reduce spam is by making it cost something to send it out... and a complaint is not considered much of a cost to the sort people that use spam.
Would I exect my auto mechanic to live up to such standards and accept being watched that closely? No.
There was a day when we expected more for our leaders, not less. Unfortunately, neither of the main candidates for president this time around inspires much reason for hope in this area.
If you don't whip out the Chief Executive in front of an employee, you are less likely to have your "privacy" invaded in a sexual harrassment lawsuit.
Furthermore, if you refrain from getting overweight interns that are your daugher's age to give you hummers while you are in the office talking on the phone, the whole world is less likely to find out about your weird cigar fetish.
Also, if you resist the urge to lie about your frequent at-work affairs during a civil trial, you are far less likely to be found in contempt of court and fined $90,000.
As presidents go, we can do a lot worse that Clinton (and often have), but I'm sick of all this pathetic whining about how unfairly he was treated. If you think real hard, I'm sure you can come up with a better poster boy for privacy than this.
If you are doing work that requires G4 power, you probably want the expandablity of a tower anyway.
On the bright side, the iMac is the ultimate dorm room machine. A fast computer, a DVD player, Harmon Kardon sound... pick up a USB TV tuner and you have a complete home entertainment system that fits on the desk underneath your lofted bed. Were I an 18 year old kid again, I would be all about this thing.
If you had read the article, or any of several out on the web today, you would know that 1) It does not work like a touchpad. 2) It does not use a trackball for movement. 3) The picture at Insider is not what it looks like.
Three new Macs, and none of them are cubes. The new mouse looks nothing like the "photo" that Insider published. OS X beta will be out in September, not this week.
Rumors turning out to be wrong all over the place. This is why they are taking a beating. They ought to change their name to "MacOutsider", because they clearly do not have the inside dish. I can get better information by having lunch with an Apple VAR once or twice a year.
The first post to make this prgnostication was from DeadSea.
That says something about Katz, that there was almost a "first post" race to see who would be fisrt to predict the subject of his next "typicle".
I'm with you on that. Bruce Campbell and A. Whitney Brown were two of the few celebrities out there with homebrew vanity pages worth visiting. I even had links to both on my own page... but now Campbell's site totally sucks.
It must be a struggle getting through life with no sense of humor like that. You have my pity.
I think I speak a lot of guys when I say "who cares!? As long as they have Gillian Anderson as Dana Scully, no other image on the screen matters."
Oh, so Jetta owners are advised that a new Beetle would really go great with their full-sized sedan? Gotcha.
Okay.
s/Gulf/Golf/
However it's spelled and whatever it's made of, it is still a poor substitute for the Jetta. Let's face it, the new Beetle is a car for people who want to pretend they are still hippies, even though they haven't actually seen a tab of acid since going to a Grateful Dead concert in 1974.
If only VW had put the engine in the back again... Lift the body and put on a Harley fork, and you had one heck of a chopper trike.
That could be. However, Bell was born and raised in Scotland. Yet another place which is not Canada.
Bell and Edison: Two men who were not Canadian and invented lots of stuff that Nikola Tesla didn't.
Or like putting an old Beetle body on a VW Gulf. Oh, wait... they're doing that.
You could easilly pass a cell phone law that does not require troopers to pull you over, but will get you an extra fine or ticket whenever you are in an accident or pulled over for a different offense.
(Minnesota has that with seat belts. If you have a passenger in the front not buckled up, another $100 is added to your speeding ticket.)
Edison was born in Ohio, which is very much not in Canada. His first profitable invention, the Edison Universal Stock Printer was built in New York... also not Canada. He then spent most of his career in Menlo Park, New Jersey. Again, not Canada.
His only connection to Canada was that he took a job as a Telegraph assistant with a company in Toronto when he was 16 (and invented an automatic transiever so he could sleep on the job). He was still a teen when he moved to the US.
"Here's to the ones who thought they could talk to martians. The ones who shocked animals to death. The ones who got too much Mercury in their blood stream..."
Think different, indeed. :)
The mathematical proof-of-concept for radio was first submitted by a brittish mathemetician named James Clerk Maxwell. Shortly afterwards, Heinrich Hine made a working radio that transmitted a signal about 5 feet. Marconi introduced the Wireless Telegraph a couple years later in 1874.
Interestingly enough, Hine is quickly joining Tesla in modern folklore as another "lost" or "forgotten" inventor. Like Tesla, his name is often attatched to crackpot inventions by scam artists looking to add an air of legitimacy to their fake machines.
"This [generator, motor, time-machine, widget] was origianally conceived by [Tesla, Hine] and has been reconstructed based on his long-lost lab notes. Big corporations, who have always had it in for this great inventor, are doing their best to cover it up, but I will happilly sell you the plans to build your own for $20. Better yet, join my pyramid scheme... er... I mean distribution network and help me save the world from the eeeevil corporations that are trying to run out lives!"
Both Tesla and Hine deserve better than these morons.
You Tesla cultists are worse than the scientologists. Give it a rest.