As far as I'm concerned, just because OS X is developed by a big corporation doesn't put it outside the sphere of *BSD. If you're using OS X, you haven't "left Linux/*BSD" forever.
Having an iPod with your PC is now just as easy to deal with as having it with your Mac.
maybe, but it's certainly not as 'cool' as having the whole shebang, and that's largely (for many people, at least) what having and using an iPod is about.
I think that this is the answer for those people who got an iPod and became people who love Apple products, but can't afford to really break into the company's line, and it's incredibly chic to boot.
Next time a person needs to go and get a new computer, they will consider spending $500 on a mediocre PC that is in a large and gaudy beige case and runs a pain-in-the-ass Windows operating system, or they could get a very small, fast, and attractive Mac that's as easy to use as the iPod they've come to love.
dude... that's the BEAUTY of this business model... that means that in order for everyone to use the list, they ALL HAVE TO BUY A COPY....silly lemmings...
SEATTLE (AP) - Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN) on Monday said sales of consumer electronics surpassed book sales for the first time and was its largest sales category over the Thanksgiving weekend, launching the online retailer's busiest holiday selling season in 10 years.
So, erm, they had a bigger day back in like, 1994?
Many American cell phone plans are based on unlimited night/weekend use and a certain number of 'anytime' minutes per month for a flat rate.
For instance, my plan with ATT Wireless (which just merged with Cingular) nets me 500 anytime minutes and unlimited night and weekend minutes anywhere in the US for US$40.
For $5 a month, I can receive as many SMS messages as I want, and then send 100 messages for free. Beyond that first hundred sent messages, each sent message is charged at a rate of ten cents per.
To me, the SMS charge seemed high, but I guess it's rather reasonable considering the costs in other countries.
My question is, why do you guys send so many SMS's when they're so expensive? Is voice airtime so expensive as to not make it worthwhile?
Yeah, but these other schools that "would love to have" him are certainly not going to get rid of their own RFID systems just to get some activist. Every school has RFID systems-- they provide a half-decent level of security, better the smaller a campus is, and they are a whole lot less expensive than cameras or guards. Just remember, it's not big brother when it's a system you choose to embrace. I hope that RMS realizes that this is just a dumb battle to wage.
yeah, they did... but in this case, she should have politely requested that they withold her picture... some people just have a face for print media...
well, that would be fine if you could say that you don't want "potentially unwanted programs" and it was a clear option. being that I don't have the program, I can't say if that's the case for sure.
people are starting to realize now that they do indeed have many "potentially unwanted programs" that they in fact do not want, and I think that they would recognize such an option if they saw it.
on the subject of whether or not dustbunny is actually a virus, I think it's no different than many other pieces of spyware that windows users typically use adaware or spybot to exerminate. so let's leave it to those programs, which seem to be pretty popular with even average users these days.
most of the silly laws to which these posters are referring are passed at the state and local level, where salaries and prior riches are rarely an issue.
and remember, if you don't like career politicians, then you're going to get people who have enough money to get into the race without a political resume. you get what you ask for...
oh come on, the parent comment to which you responded HAD to have been joking. federal senators make $154,000 a year, a nice chunk of change, but not to the point where they regularly use drivers for their own transportation. state representatives usually make something in the vicinity of $30-40k a year, depending on the state, which in many cases is substantially less than the salaries of their constituents.
elected representatives don't do it for the money. they may do it for the power and influence or other less-than-morally-praiseworthy ideals, but raking in the dough while in office is not one of them.
I think that radio program data and information is too irregular and difficult to get right now, so that would be tough to do...
but I'm frequently wanting to be able to listen to something that happened in the last five or ten minutes of the radio... a phone number on a commercial, a line I missed on the morning show when I was on the phone, or a song I just heard that I really liked enough to want to hear it again.
I'd imagine it wouldn't be difficult, and even a 64mb flash card would be enough to hold an hour or so of audio, and there wouldn't need to be any data download. Basically just the 'trick play' function of TiVo.
I think that there are two major types of people who would be interested in paying for satellite radio.
First are those in rural markets with few radio stations and little variety at that. If the radio in your market/region is not to your taste, and you do a substantial amount of driving, then this may be worth the subscription.
If you travel heavily on the road, then it also may be worth it. As a student who travels from Philadelphia to Maine more than monthly, I regularly feel the need to have a constant set of stations available to me while in the car. It's generally not too bad, since I'm in the East Coast Metropolis, but I can imagine in other regions of the US this being a substantially intriguing idea.
Sat radio providers have some sort of responsibility similar to network providers' uptime responsibility. By providing access to internet-based 'radio' stations, they are allowing for the possibility that a customer, paying a monthly subscription, would try to listen to one of these stations, only for it to be out of service for one reason or another.
Now whether or not such an outage would be XM's (sirius, etc) fault, the average user would blame XM because it wasn't "just working" like average users need.
The stations that they're broadcasting right now are substantial and well-backed enough so that the sat providers need not worry about such issues. And even if that's not enough, they probably have contracts that ensure (or at least offer financial relief in lieu of) such reliability.
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This is the case with the now-commonly-misused term "begging the question." Many who use it now use it to simply mean "raising the question." The term's academically-accepted meaning indicates that one is begging the question when they assume the very claim that they are attempting to prove.
An example of this would be the following argument:
We know that God exists because we can see that His Creation is in such perfect order. This order demonstrates a supernatural intelligence in its design.
The conclusion of this argument is that God exists, while assuming that there is an existent Creator that also exists, namely, God.
The problem with the new common practice of substituting this tool of philosophical language for "raising the question" is just what you described with "ironic." There is not really an adequate replacement for the philosophical meaning of "begging the question" that can replace it in its absence. The best I can do is, rather than saying to someone "You're begging the question!" is instead to say "Your reasoning is circular in that it's assuming its own conclusion!"
See? This is the reason why most people find philosophers to be windbags: society takes away all of our tools for language! Not ironic, just sucky.
Besides... Which position really is more extreme? Extremism is in the eye of the bell curve. From my perspective, it's mighty odd that I don't know a single person who does not watch TV. Not a single one. That's extreme.
Wow, I don't know anyone who doesn't know how to read. Not a single one. That must be extreme too. Damn the Man who did this to society and got us all addicted on this silly reading thing! Have you also given that up?... nevermind, I answered that last one myself
Well, on the east coast, with all our turnpikes and toll highways, there is a big push for people to use transponder tags to pay their tolls (via the EZPass and compatible systems, primarily).
So it gets interesting when driving on many of the most travelled roads and bridges subjects you to tracking, and not just the occasional bridge as on the west coast. And since these tags are used to pay tolls, they need some sort of identification scheme, and simply cannot be anonymous.
At any rate, requiring people to have a tag in their car simply for the purpose of tracking traffic is a complete violation of privacy. There would probably be a fair number of volunteers for such a program that would make it worthwhile, but to require that all citizens subject themselves to tracking while driving on open-access freeways is just not kosher.
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As far as I'm concerned, just because OS X is developed by a big corporation doesn't put it outside the sphere of *BSD. If you're using OS X, you haven't "left Linux/*BSD" forever.
Having an iPod with your PC is now just as easy to deal with as having it with your Mac.
maybe, but it's certainly not as 'cool' as having the whole shebang, and that's largely (for many people, at least) what having and using an iPod is about.
I think that this is the answer for those people who got an iPod and became people who love Apple products, but can't afford to really break into the company's line, and it's incredibly chic to boot.
Next time a person needs to go and get a new computer, they will consider spending $500 on a mediocre PC that is in a large and gaudy beige case and runs a pain-in-the-ass Windows operating system, or they could get a very small, fast, and attractive Mac that's as easy to use as the iPod they've come to love.
dude... that's the BEAUTY of this business model... that means that in order for everyone to use the list, they ALL HAVE TO BUY A COPY. ...silly lemmings...
I thank you, good sir. Your support of posters, like myself, who simply strive to find the cold, hard truth is truly noble and appreciated.
SEATTLE (AP) - Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN) on Monday said sales of consumer electronics surpassed book sales for the first time and was its largest sales category over the Thanksgiving weekend, launching the online retailer's busiest holiday selling season in 10 years.
So, erm, they had a bigger day back in like, 1994?
okay, so if it took me like twenty minutes to figure that out, I'm not even going to look at the FA.
dude, there is NOTHING wrong with it telling me when cute asian women walk by...
Many American cell phone plans are based on unlimited night/weekend use and a certain number of 'anytime' minutes per month for a flat rate.
For instance, my plan with ATT Wireless (which just merged with Cingular) nets me 500 anytime minutes and unlimited night and weekend minutes anywhere in the US for US$40.
For $5 a month, I can receive as many SMS messages as I want, and then send 100 messages for free. Beyond that first hundred sent messages, each sent message is charged at a rate of ten cents per.
To me, the SMS charge seemed high, but I guess it's rather reasonable considering the costs in other countries.
My question is, why do you guys send so many SMS's when they're so expensive? Is voice airtime so expensive as to not make it worthwhile?
I think the security layer known as "big guys with guns outside the door" works pretty well and pretty quickly...
or if you had done a little better on your SAT's, you could have opted out of it ;-)
Yeah, but these other schools that "would love to have" him are certainly not going to get rid of their own RFID systems just to get some activist. Every school has RFID systems-- they provide a half-decent level of security, better the smaller a campus is, and they are a whole lot less expensive than cameras or guards. Just remember, it's not big brother when it's a system you choose to embrace. I hope that RMS realizes that this is just a dumb battle to wage.
yeah, they did... but in this case, she should have politely requested that they withold her picture... some people just have a face for print media...
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Yeah, it's only 10:10am and SCOX is down 3.8% on the morning, with the ask prices looking abysmally low.
Could be a very long day for SCO.
well, that would be fine if you could say that you don't want "potentially unwanted programs" and it was a clear option. being that I don't have the program, I can't say if that's the case for sure.
people are starting to realize now that they do indeed have many "potentially unwanted programs" that they in fact do not want, and I think that they would recognize such an option if they saw it.
on the subject of whether or not dustbunny is actually a virus, I think it's no different than many other pieces of spyware that windows users typically use adaware or spybot to exerminate. so let's leave it to those programs, which seem to be pretty popular with even average users these days.
most of the silly laws to which these posters are referring are passed at the state and local level, where salaries and prior riches are rarely an issue.
and remember, if you don't like career politicians, then you're going to get people who have enough money to get into the race without a political resume. you get what you ask for...
"no ossciffer... I prommmise ... I'm n-not dreenking unter the infffluence... I fffinished a wh-while ago."
oh come on, the parent comment to which you responded HAD to have been joking. federal senators make $154,000 a year, a nice chunk of change, but not to the point where they regularly use drivers for their own transportation. state representatives usually make something in the vicinity of $30-40k a year, depending on the state, which in many cases is substantially less than the salaries of their constituents.
elected representatives don't do it for the money. they may do it for the power and influence or other less-than-morally-praiseworthy ideals, but raking in the dough while in office is not one of them.
It didn't say it would change your life for the better...
1. You'll lose all your friends because you are always too antisocial with your earbuds on listening to your iPod.
2. Your boss will realize that you have a Mac at home think that you're not dedicated to the new development goals, all of which are based on Windows.
3. You'll lose the memory stick that has your most important data on it, and your boss will finally fire you, you Mac-loving luch.
Then again, maybe you have no friends to begin with and haven't yet found a job... in which case, maybe things can go up from here.
I think that radio program data and information is too irregular and difficult to get right now, so that would be tough to do...
but I'm frequently wanting to be able to listen to something that happened in the last five or ten minutes of the radio... a phone number on a commercial, a line I missed on the morning show when I was on the phone, or a song I just heard that I really liked enough to want to hear it again.
I'd imagine it wouldn't be difficult, and even a 64mb flash card would be enough to hold an hour or so of audio, and there wouldn't need to be any data download. Basically just the 'trick play' function of TiVo.
I think that there are two major types of people who would be interested in paying for satellite radio.
First are those in rural markets with few radio stations and little variety at that. If the radio in your market/region is not to your taste, and you do a substantial amount of driving, then this may be worth the subscription.
If you travel heavily on the road, then it also may be worth it. As a student who travels from Philadelphia to Maine more than monthly, I regularly feel the need to have a constant set of stations available to me while in the car. It's generally not too bad, since I'm in the East Coast Metropolis, but I can imagine in other regions of the US this being a substantially intriguing idea.
Sat radio providers have some sort of responsibility similar to network providers' uptime responsibility. By providing access to internet-based 'radio' stations, they are allowing for the possibility that a customer, paying a monthly subscription, would try to listen to one of these stations, only for it to be out of service for one reason or another.
Now whether or not such an outage would be XM's (sirius, etc) fault, the average user would blame XM because it wasn't "just working" like average users need.
The stations that they're broadcasting right now are substantial and well-backed enough so that the sat providers need not worry about such issues. And even if that's not enough, they probably have contracts that ensure (or at least offer financial relief in lieu of) such reliability.
This is the case with the now-commonly-misused term "begging the question." Many who use it now use it to simply mean "raising the question." The term's academically-accepted meaning indicates that one is begging the question when they assume the very claim that they are attempting to prove.
An example of this would be the following argument:
We know that God exists because we can see that His Creation is in such perfect order. This order demonstrates a supernatural intelligence in its design.
The conclusion of this argument is that God exists, while assuming that there is an existent Creator that also exists, namely, God.
The problem with the new common practice of substituting this tool of philosophical language for "raising the question" is just what you described with "ironic." There is not really an adequate replacement for the philosophical meaning of "begging the question" that can replace it in its absence. The best I can do is, rather than saying to someone "You're begging the question!" is instead to say "Your reasoning is circular in that it's assuming its own conclusion!"
See? This is the reason why most people find philosophers to be windbags: society takes away all of our tools for language! Not ironic, just sucky.
Besides... Which position really is more extreme? Extremism is in the eye of the bell curve. From my perspective, it's mighty odd that I don't know a single person who does not watch TV. Not a single one. That's extreme.
... nevermind, I answered that last one myself
Wow, I don't know anyone who doesn't know how to read. Not a single one. That must be extreme too. Damn the Man who did this to society and got us all addicted on this silly reading thing! Have you also given that up?
Well, on the east coast, with all our turnpikes and toll highways, there is a big push for people to use transponder tags to pay their tolls (via the EZPass and compatible systems, primarily).
So it gets interesting when driving on many of the most travelled roads and bridges subjects you to tracking, and not just the occasional bridge as on the west coast. And since these tags are used to pay tolls, they need some sort of identification scheme, and simply cannot be anonymous.
At any rate, requiring people to have a tag in their car simply for the purpose of tracking traffic is a complete violation of privacy. There would probably be a fair number of volunteers for such a program that would make it worthwhile, but to require that all citizens subject themselves to tracking while driving on open-access freeways is just not kosher.