So as of now, it seems that Apple is trusting its users to buy the right number of licenses to install their OS. That is a far cry from what MS does with their activation junk.
Yep! And about for 1/5th of the price too (compared to Vista Ultimate, here around).
My sweetie has the 12" power book and loves it. I don't think that every latest and greatest incarnation of OS/X is necessary for her. But when we upgraded to 10.4. I sure as hell ordered a copy at the Apple shop. Despite the fact that I could have borrowed it drom a friend.
In most cases, these high-speed trains cannot even utilize the same track as the medium and short range trains; they have to build a completely separate infrastructure to support the TGV, ICE, or what have you.
This, of course, is completely wrong.
Those high speed trains run just fine on normal tracks. They won't run with such high speed, of course, but the whole idea is that you don't need a completely new infrastructure to run those trains. You only have designated high speed tracks (which are usually pretty straight and don't have any crossings or so) between the major cities.
Zurich, for example, is served by both train types, the TGV and the ICE (connecting Köln, Frankfurt, Berlin and Paris). There is no such thing as a high speed track in Switzerland (the fastest track will eventually permit 200km/h when they get in-train signaling sorted out). Those trains will run at their full potential when they reach their designated high speed track (for example between Freiburg and Frankfurt and Köln).
While I not necessasrily agree with the actual outcome (and it does make USians appear as dorks, shielding away from perfectly reasonable treaties) your post was quite educational and insightful.
Do you feel like your privacy has been violated if someone that already had your e-mail address sells/trades/gives it to someone else?
It's actually worse then that. I feel that my sanitary and healthy living conditions are polluted by some low life scumbag who's getting rich quick by shitting into the communal water supply.
Well, that would be happened, since the garage is no more operational for quite some time. Don't know if they ever found skeletons in the closet, so to speak.
do you pay upfront, or when you retrieve it?
Upon retrieval at a cash machine (as in all parking garages here).
They tried such a scheme (alas not quite as sofisticated) in the city of Zurich, Switzerland a few years ago. You parked your car in a lift thingie, left it, acknowledged a sort of EULA in which you certified that you didn't leave life animals in your car and presto! Your car was parked fully automagically.
The parking worked like a charm too. What didn't quite work was the retrieval of your car (which should happen within 120 seconds according to the specs). The city, as the owner of the garage, had to shell out a few nights in a nice hotel until the less lucky owners cars could be retrieved by manual intervention.
[...]and the government staying out of it until it becomes a national concern that cannot be dealt with.
Then it's too late, way too late! If it becomes a national concern depriving Americans of their god given right to wear t-shirts in winter and wool sweaters in summer you'll be looking back at Katrina as a tame, little storm of allmost romantic proportions.
I would imagine that you can be clumped into the group of people that think enacting environmental protection laws will curb global warming?
No. I hold it with the Economist (which can most certainly not be called a fear mongering newspaper who wants to see laws enacted left and right). They argued in a survey from September 7 about climate change that investing now into curbing green house gases is way cheaper then facing the consequences at a future time. I quote from the introductory article of the survey:
This survey will argue that although the science remains uncertain, the chances of serious consequences are high enough to make it worth spending the (not exorbitant) sums needed to try to mitigate climate change. It will suggest that, even though America, the world's biggest CO2 emitter, turned its back on the Kyoto protocol on global warming, the chances are that it will eventually take steps to control its emissions. And if America does, there is a reasonable prospect that the other big producers of CO2 will do the same. (the whole survey can be purchased as a PDF for $4.95 here)
Of course you can now accuse the Economist of an anti-American publication who desperately loathes the republican party. You would be wrong of course. But don't let facts stand in the way of your prejudice.
Click-click-click. That was the sound of data dying on thousands of Iomega Zip drives. Though Iomega sold tens of millions of Zip and Jaz drives that worked flawlessly, thousands of the drives died mysteriously, issuing a clicking noise as the drive head became misaligned and clipped the edge of the removable media, rendering any data on that disc permanently inaccessible.
Iomega largely ignored the problem until angry customers filed a class action suit in 1998, which the company settled three years later by offering rebates on future products. And the Zip disk, once the floppy's heir apparent, has largely been eclipsed by thumb drives and cheaper, faster, more capacious rewritable CDs and DVDs.
Not that an unlucky owner of an Iomega product would have ever used such a rebate...
Note that, having said that, I was born in 1974. I *do* have experience with some really early machines, but it's always been in the context of it being an artifact - sheer pleasure of connecting with history, the same reason people ride horses or drive Volkswagens.
Please note that the Volkswagen Corporation may be offended by your statement.
in Europe, virtually all phones - whether contract or pay-as-you-go - are locked to an individual phone company vendor.
Maybe where you live. But most certainly not throughout Europe. I get yearly a new phone for a cheap price from my carrier when I extend the contract. It was never SIM locked in any way, shape or form (why would they? I anyway stick with them for another year?)
The only phones of which I know that come locked are very cheap prepayed deals. At least in Switzerland.
I think the entire biodegradable thing is a red herring. Anything tread with this stuff will probably need another treatment to get it off, and then after that you can recycle it the way you do Cellphones/mp3players/what ever (I don't know what they do, so don't look at me).
I really wouldn't know enough about the details to answer that one. If it can just be recycled with the plastic and then biodegrades during the recycling process: zowie!
But then again I agree with you that the biodegradable issue in this specific case is primarily marketing speak and looks good on brochures.
Yes; in any case it voids the warranty and may even be borderline illegal, but generally tolerated by the phone manufacturers. You also need special geer whiich can cost a few hundred Euros.
Assuming that you are a German speaker. ct' had an interesting article on the subject a few month ago. It's available for sale online for 0.70 EUR: here.
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Yep! And about for 1/5th of the price too (compared to Vista Ultimate, here around).
My sweetie has the 12" power book and loves it. I don't think that every latest and greatest incarnation of OS/X is necessary for her. But when we upgraded to 10.4. I sure as hell ordered a copy at the Apple shop. Despite the fact that I could have borrowed it drom a friend.
Don't like European laws? Don't do business there.
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This, of course, is completely wrong.
Those high speed trains run just fine on normal tracks. They won't run with such high speed, of course, but the whole idea is that you don't need a completely new infrastructure to run those trains. You only have designated high speed tracks (which are usually pretty straight and don't have any crossings or so) between the major cities.
Zurich, for example, is served by both train types, the TGV and the ICE (connecting Köln, Frankfurt, Berlin and Paris). There is no such thing as a high speed track in Switzerland (the fastest track will eventually permit 200km/h when they get in-train signaling sorted out). Those trains will run at their full potential when they reach their designated high speed track (for example between Freiburg and Frankfurt and Köln).
While I not necessasrily agree with the actual outcome (and it does make USians appear as dorks, shielding away from perfectly reasonable treaties) your post was quite educational and insightful.
I repect and appreciate that.
Not to worry
He'll be writing parking tickets in a rural, Siberian town real soon now.
He would be writing parking tickets in a rural, Siberian town real soon.
Take it for what it's worth: You have it from a guy on the internet :)
You can step back from the sale and return the item within a specified time period. Depending on country: 7 - 14 days.
It's actually worse then that. I feel that my sanitary and healthy living conditions are polluted by some low life scumbag who's getting rich quick by shitting into the communal water supply.
This is metaphorically speaking, of course.
And don't forget that Bubba layed his grubby hands on just about any pen1s enlarrrgement offer he received by email.
Upon retrieval at a cash machine (as in all parking garages here).
The parking worked like a charm too. What didn't quite work was the retrieval of your car (which should happen within 120 seconds according to the specs). The city, as the owner of the garage, had to shell out a few nights in a nice hotel until the less lucky owners cars could be retrieved by manual intervention.
Trusted computing is one of the more frightening new speak euphemism of the last few years.
I trust my computers just fine. If the World Disney Corporation has a problem with that that's really not my problem.
There is a problem though, of course, and that's when choice is ripped away from me by technical means.
Then it's too late, way too late! If it becomes a national concern depriving Americans of their god given right to wear t-shirts in winter and wool sweaters in summer you'll be looking back at Katrina as a tame, little storm of allmost romantic proportions.
No. I hold it with the Economist (which can most certainly not be called a fear mongering newspaper who wants to see laws enacted left and right). They argued in a survey from September 7 about climate change that investing now into curbing green house gases is way cheaper then facing the consequences at a future time. I quote from the introductory article of the survey:
This survey will argue that although the science remains uncertain, the chances of serious consequences are high enough to make it worth spending the (not exorbitant) sums needed to try to mitigate climate change. It will suggest that, even though America, the world's biggest CO2 emitter, turned its back on the Kyoto protocol on global warming, the chances are that it will eventually take steps to control its emissions. And if America does, there is a reasonable prospect that the other big producers of CO2 will do the same. (the whole survey can be purchased as a PDF for $4.95 here)
Of course you can now accuse the Economist of an anti-American publication who desperately loathes the republican party. You would be wrong of course. But don't let facts stand in the way of your prejudice.
I'd argue that the president and his minions are very well taking a stance.
By intentionally shutting up scientists and censoring them.
I admit to have copy/pasted it from some fan site, since I liked the ring. But since I like the sound of your kind correction better, see below:
At least the Zip drive earned fame if not fortune by being included into PC-Worlds 25 Worst Tech Products of All Time.
From the article:
Click-click-click. That was the sound of data dying on thousands of Iomega Zip drives. Though Iomega sold tens of millions of Zip and Jaz drives that worked flawlessly, thousands of the drives died mysteriously, issuing a clicking noise as the drive head became misaligned and clipped the edge of the removable media, rendering any data on that disc permanently inaccessible.
Iomega largely ignored the problem until angry customers filed a class action suit in 1998, which the company settled three years later by offering rebates on future products. And the Zip disk, once the floppy's heir apparent, has largely been eclipsed by thumb drives and cheaper, faster, more capacious rewritable CDs and DVDs.
Not that an unlucky owner of an Iomega product would have ever used such a rebate...
Please note that the Volkswagen Corporation may be offended by your statement.
Maybe where you live. But most certainly not throughout Europe. I get yearly a new phone for a cheap price from my carrier when I extend the contract. It was never SIM locked in any way, shape or form (why would they? I anyway stick with them for another year?)
The only phones of which I know that come locked are very cheap prepayed deals. At least in Switzerland.
Stockholm did exactly that. The fee you pay is dependent on the time of day you enter the enter the fare area with your car.
The system was in force from January 3, 2006 to July 31, 2006. Final implementation is now under consideration.
I really wouldn't know enough about the details to answer that one. If it can just be recycled with the plastic and then biodegrades during the recycling process: zowie!
But then again I agree with you that the biodegradable issue in this specific case is primarily marketing speak and looks good on brochures.
That's what recycling programs are designed for.
Yes; in any case it voids the warranty and may even be borderline illegal, but generally tolerated by the phone manufacturers. You also need special geer whiich can cost a few hundred Euros.
Assuming that you are a German speaker. ct' had an interesting article on the subject a few month ago. It's available for sale online for 0.70 EUR: here.
The US- wireless carriers are all scared shitless of a device like this.
Sorry, you just don't have this kind of shit dictated by European phone networks. Phones sold here (with and without plans) have no such restrictions.
They also don't have any restrictions in uploading your sounds, images, movies or (in case of smartphones) applications.
They also don't come with criplled Bluetooth stacks or some of the other stunts of which US carriers seem so fond of pulling off.