I've been using the original no-drive (i.e. 256MB storage I think) for... jeez 4 years now I guess. I've never ran into any problem what-so-ever with storage.
If you're using Amazon.com for your prices you'd best be damn sure you're choosing free shipping options. From what I'm seeing that's not universally the case for this stuff.
On the other hand if you actually buy the stuff from a store you're getting 299.99 + 49.96*2 = as close as doesn't matter to $400.
That's still a $50 savings, yes. That works out to 6.25% financing, which is probably on par with most such buy now, pay later deals.
I think what this submission meant to say was "Why you don't want to finance anything above 0%"
I'm not obnoxiously paranoid; I give out information to lots of companies that don't disgust me. I stopped using google as much as is reasonable 3 years ago. I don't think they're abusing their monopoly or part of some giant conspiracy.
What they are, is an advertising company; I don't give my information to ad companies.
They were sued/fined/charged for threatening OEMs who wanted to bundle Netscape instead of IE as I recall.
However, the GP is completely off base as well. You're allowed to package up whatever software you want with your OS or your hardware, it's only when you start actively abusing a monopoly position to prevent competition that you run afoul.
I can assure you that dogs are not intelligent enough to be given the standard personal rights, and in some countries they already do have a (very) minimal set of rights.
On the other hand, what this research will do (if successful) is allow us some insight into the workings of an intelligence entirely different from our own. Dogs and Humans common lineage is pretty far removed by any scale, so having a look could teach us a lot of things about intelligence.
I'd wager that this can only degrade human-canine relationships. Dog owners already believe that they are the centre of the dogs universe and that the loyalty is undying and unlimited. The best possible scenario is that those beliefs are confirmed. When they find out that a dog thinks about killing his owner on average once a day (the other extreme) suddenly the picture won't be so rosy.
Bottom line: most dog owners attribute only the best possible emotional states to their dogs, knowing the truth will only damage that state of ignorance.
I don't work in the US, I understand that your laws are better, however from what I know you're also a little ways from reality.
While it's true that the employee in the US has to prove discrimination to actually win any sort of suit, they by no means need to do so to cause serious problems for the company.
This is something that I feel has been lost in recent years, and I blame the political correctness garbage.
I work with people every day that have no job to do. I'm not talking about the typical "I'm the backbone of the company and without me they'd sink" attitude that so many people have. I mean they literally sit and play solitaire all day. They aren't doing bad work, because they don't have any to do.
Yet, they aren't fired, because you need fourteen thousand strikes and a paper trail eight miles long to do it.
I salute IBM in cutting jobs, the global computer market has changed, and IBM is no longer at the forefront of the entire market (nor can they be, it's so much bigger than it used to be).
The problem is worse than that. Even modern measurements of 70 years have weather stations showing opposite trends within a few miles of each other.
The latest graph I saw of the US weather stations showed approximately 60% as a positive (warming) trend and 40% as a cooling trend over seven decades
It's not just historical temperature records, we don't even have accurate current records. Satellite data is probably the only accurate system we have, assuming that it is.
What scares me is the people who think that either side is entirely correct, in a debate for which it is demonstrable fact that we lack the understanding required for complete correctness.
But I do remember that the controls were slow and inconsistient, and to do simple actions required many button presses and much more attention than a carputer should require
You press the voice command button once for a prompt or twice to skip the prompt and go straight to speaking.
Now, unless you're also too stupid to turn a volume control or a next track button (which are instant by the way) my reply addressed your complaint directly and clearly.
But you really are too stupid to understand any of this, so I'm not surprised you're incapable of turning a knob.
I do so love morons that believe that apple stuff actually costs more.
I know that you're an AC and you won't read the reply... but seriously go and educate yourself. Find an actually comparable product (resolution, battery, build quality, 5yr failure rates, etc) and you'll discover that in the very few instances that you can get something that matches apple it costs exactly the same.
Ah well I think there's some fairness in limiting it to set tops really. Ultimately if you don't then my standard computer is the best entertainment system accessory ever (it can play games too!)
However, I freely admit that without the iPad (or an iPhone which is about the same price) the appleTV is not an especially impressive bit of kit. Given that the combo costs considerably more than most HTPCs I can't really argue with you too much here.
I will say that the (new) appleTV has a much smaller footprint than even the tiniest of HTPCs, and there is a certain power to the simplicity (for instance, my mother wasn't confused by it when she came over)
I guess it depends on your criteria for revolution. If it's a sheer numbers game, than Apple hasn't even made a blip, and the local (piece of shit) cable company is the most revolutionary thing ever.
If on the other hand it's functionality, Apple most definitely has revolutionized the living room. I can mirror from my phone, my tablet, my computer without any hassle and regardless of my TV. My friends can instead of loading up a trailer or what have you on my computer after asking for passwords and such just hit airplay on their phones (only 2 of my friends have failed to make the switch to an iPhone). I can and do rent movies from it, play music from any of the computers in my house, and all of the more standard things that set tops can do.
So I guess the question is: Do you think your cable company is revolutionary? because if you don't, then Apple is.
Sorry to piss *in* your corn flakes, but by saying that you've proven you've never tried the system.
iPad + AppleTV is so, so, so so so so so so SO SO much better than any other single/combination of set tops in existence it's embarrassing.
Mind you, it comes with a price tag that depending on what you've got rivals the TV itself... But to say it isn't good just proves you've never used it.
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I disagree, all of the USB keys I've used in the XBox were free. I use 2 of them, both from conferences that were paid for by my company.
I have another dozen or so kicking around if I ever needed more space (though I can't imagine I ever will)
Two small corrections:
1) If you take walmart prices instead of amazon (more representative as it's store-vs-store) it's actually a $50 savings.
2) it works out to 6.25% apr (yes it'd be 12.5 over two years but the annual interest rate is the proper comparison to credit cards/other financing)
That's a nice anecdote you've got there.
I've been using the original no-drive (i.e. 256MB storage I think) for... jeez 4 years now I guess. I've never ran into any problem what-so-ever with storage.
USB keys are a wonderful thing.
If you're using Amazon.com for your prices you'd best be damn sure you're choosing free shipping options. From what I'm seeing that's not universally the case for this stuff.
On the other hand if you actually buy the stuff from a store you're getting 299.99 + 49.96*2 = as close as doesn't matter to $400.
That's still a $50 savings, yes. That works out to 6.25% financing, which is probably on par with most such buy now, pay later deals.
I think what this submission meant to say was "Why you don't want to finance anything above 0%"
I'm not obnoxiously paranoid; I give out information to lots of companies that don't disgust me. I stopped using google as much as is reasonable 3 years ago. I don't think they're abusing their monopoly or part of some giant conspiracy.
What they are, is an advertising company; I don't give my information to ad companies.
irrelevant. That isn't what they got fined for.
They were sued/fined/charged for threatening OEMs who wanted to bundle Netscape instead of IE as I recall.
However, the GP is completely off base as well. You're allowed to package up whatever software you want with your OS or your hardware, it's only when you start actively abusing a monopoly position to prevent competition that you run afoul.
Of all the hippy nonsense...
I can assure you that dogs are not intelligent enough to be given the standard personal rights, and in some countries they already do have a (very) minimal set of rights.
On the other hand, what this research will do (if successful) is allow us some insight into the workings of an intelligence entirely different from our own. Dogs and Humans common lineage is pretty far removed by any scale, so having a look could teach us a lot of things about intelligence.
I'd wager that this can only degrade human-canine relationships. Dog owners already believe that they are the centre of the dogs universe and that the loyalty is undying and unlimited. The best possible scenario is that those beliefs are confirmed. When they find out that a dog thinks about killing his owner on average once a day (the other extreme) suddenly the picture won't be so rosy.
Bottom line: most dog owners attribute only the best possible emotional states to their dogs, knowing the truth will only damage that state of ignorance.
So your assertion is that no parents anywhere use techniques provided by developmental psychology for their children?
Because otherwise I fail to see how using training techniques provided by the very same could be considered doing more for the pet than the child.
You are just such a complete moron it's scary.
Please do the world a favour and never communicate again.
Well inherently the word better is subjective, yes...
You seem to disagree though, what restrictions (aside from criminal discrimination) would you place on a business removing employees?
I don't work in the US, I understand that your laws are better, however from what I know you're also a little ways from reality.
While it's true that the employee in the US has to prove discrimination to actually win any sort of suit, they by no means need to do so to cause serious problems for the company.
This is something that I feel has been lost in recent years, and I blame the political correctness garbage.
I work with people every day that have no job to do. I'm not talking about the typical "I'm the backbone of the company and without me they'd sink" attitude that so many people have. I mean they literally sit and play solitaire all day. They aren't doing bad work, because they don't have any to do.
Yet, they aren't fired, because you need fourteen thousand strikes and a paper trail eight miles long to do it.
I salute IBM in cutting jobs, the global computer market has changed, and IBM is no longer at the forefront of the entire market (nor can they be, it's so much bigger than it used to be).
I don't have to stick my fingers in my ears and tell myself I'm right when I'm not.
The problem is worse than that. Even modern measurements of 70 years have weather stations showing opposite trends within a few miles of each other.
The latest graph I saw of the US weather stations showed approximately 60% as a positive (warming) trend and 40% as a cooling trend over seven decades
It's not just historical temperature records, we don't even have accurate current records. Satellite data is probably the only accurate system we have, assuming that it is.
It also makes you intelligent.
What scares me is the people who think that either side is entirely correct, in a debate for which it is demonstrable fact that we lack the understanding required for complete correctness.
But I do remember that the controls were slow and inconsistient, and to do simple actions required many button presses and much more attention than a carputer should require
You press the voice command button once for a prompt or twice to skip the prompt and go straight to speaking.
Now, unless you're also too stupid to turn a volume control or a next track button (which are instant by the way) my reply addressed your complaint directly and clearly.
But you really are too stupid to understand any of this, so I'm not surprised you're incapable of turning a knob.
untrained.
Reading is out of your grasp too I see.
VBA and Access. I think that explains the problem.
No, the system has not changed, and an untrained monkey could use it.
If you really had that experience I cannot imagine how you possibly use any technology.
You press the voice command button once for a prompt or twice to skip the prompt and go straight to speaking.
It seriously could not be simpler, if you honestly couldn't figure that out I assure you it was not the fault of the system.
WDTVs are unmitigated shit. Given your opinion on them I can imagine how valid your opinions on other things are.
No, the other way around. The AppleTV lets you stream *from* iPad/iPhone/computer to the TV (in addition of course to other functionality)
Way to reply to the wrong poster.
I do so love morons that believe that apple stuff actually costs more.
I know that you're an AC and you won't read the reply... but seriously go and educate yourself. Find an actually comparable product (resolution, battery, build quality, 5yr failure rates, etc) and you'll discover that in the very few instances that you can get something that matches apple it costs exactly the same.
Ah well I think there's some fairness in limiting it to set tops really. Ultimately if you don't then my standard computer is the best entertainment system accessory ever (it can play games too!)
However, I freely admit that without the iPad (or an iPhone which is about the same price) the appleTV is not an especially impressive bit of kit. Given that the combo costs considerably more than most HTPCs I can't really argue with you too much here.
I will say that the (new) appleTV has a much smaller footprint than even the tiniest of HTPCs, and there is a certain power to the simplicity (for instance, my mother wasn't confused by it when she came over)
I guess it depends on your criteria for revolution. If it's a sheer numbers game, than Apple hasn't even made a blip, and the local (piece of shit) cable company is the most revolutionary thing ever.
If on the other hand it's functionality, Apple most definitely has revolutionized the living room. I can mirror from my phone, my tablet, my computer without any hassle and regardless of my TV. My friends can instead of loading up a trailer or what have you on my computer after asking for passwords and such just hit airplay on their phones (only 2 of my friends have failed to make the switch to an iPhone). I can and do rent movies from it, play music from any of the computers in my house, and all of the more standard things that set tops can do.
So I guess the question is: Do you think your cable company is revolutionary? because if you don't, then Apple is.
Sorry to piss *in* your corn flakes, but by saying that you've proven you've never tried the system.
iPad + AppleTV is so, so, so so so so so so SO SO much better than any other single/combination of set tops in existence it's embarrassing.
Mind you, it comes with a price tag that depending on what you've got rivals the TV itself... But to say it isn't good just proves you've never used it.