"The license to use Boot Camp Beta expires when Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard is available to the public."
"Warning: Boot Camp Beta is preview software licensed for use on a trial basis for a limited time. Do not use Boot Camp Beta in a commercial operating environment or with important data. You should back up all of your data before installing this software and regularly back up data while using the software. Your rights to use Boot Camp Beta are subject to acceptance of the terms of the software license agreement that accompanies the software."
Users of Boot Camp Beta did read the terms of use, didn't they?
I have cable service for internet and digital tv. If I watch "Heros" from the tv feed, I pay a tax on the tv service. If I watch the same show after downloading it from nbc.com, I don't have to pay a tax on the internet service. Both downloads come over the same cable in digital form. Please explain why one should be taxed and the other not.
Years ago, when the HP LaserJet 4 first came out, I bought one at Fry's for $1600. Three weeks later, they were selling it for $1200. I didn't whine.
Who hasn't bought a computer, a flat screen tv, or a car where there wasn't a discount or price reduction a few months later? Why would anyone expect the iPhone to be exempt from economics?
Clearly, Apple is doing the right thing as far a public relations are concerned, but the idea that you are entitled to a refund for something you bought two months ago is ridiculous.
The 9th Circuit is the largest circuit, so you would expect more appeals from the 9th Circuit. However, the Supreme Court hears a disproportionately large fraction of appeals from the 9th Circuit. Since the Supreme Court doesn't hear appeals unless a number of Justices believe the decision may have been decided improperly, this is evidence that the Supreme Court has greater difficulty with the decisions of the 9th Circuit than any other. In the last term, 90% of appeals from the 9th Circuit were upheld (19 of 21), i.e., the 9th Circuit was reversed. The 9th Circuit is reversed 9-0 more than any other circuit when not a single Justice agrees with the 9th Circuit.
Apple clearly listed iTunes as a requirment for the iPhone. The original poster does not have a supported iTunes on his 64-bit Windows system. Apple doesn't have a supported iTunes for 64-bit Windows. http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301 301
He should have known he didn't meet the requirements, since he didn't have a supported iTunes installed. This is a well known issue with iTunes, not a surprise that suddenly appeared on June 29. The Apple article was created April 7, 2005.
The plaintiffs have just defeated their own case. The macbook and macbook pro do display millions of colors as advertised, just not running OS X. They should be complaining about OS X being advertised falsely, not the macbooks.
I follow your advice. I never buy things from Apple that I can't install myself. I always buy things I can't install from other vendors. I only buy from Apple things I can install by myself.
How does this respond to the pressure that Apple has been under in Europe about the close ties between the Apple Store and the iPod? Now that some songs can be purchased DRM free that can be played on any player, is Apple home free?
This isn't just for the internet. If I go to Nevada and buy a new car and bring it back to my home in California, the law says I need to register (license) it in California and pay the use (sales) tax just as if I had bought it in California. The same is true of furniture, a new tv, or any other item I buy out-of-state and bring back to California as a new item.
Purchases from a mail order catalog are treated the same way by the law.
I bought a computer 2 months before XP came out. It had ME on it, but came with a coupon for the upgrade, which I got and installed. Later, when the hard drive died, I bought a new hard drive and had to install ME, then do the upgrade to XP again.
From a quote in the Inquirer article. ",,,INQ reader Brad Steffler, MD, who brought the report to our attention. 'As a physician who uses PCs for image review before I perform surgery, this situation is intolerable.' "
OK, so the submitter couldn't distiguish the quote from the INQ submitter from the subject of the article, but at least he didn't make the whole thing up.
People with high incomes pay most of the income taxes. After paying their taxes, they accumulate wealth. Most countries don't have a direct wealth tax (give us 10% of everything you own). So the fact that people with high incomes also have most of the wealth is not surprising, and it has nothing to do with whether the income tax is progressive.
The site that shows you how you stand in the world on income also states that Bill Gates by himself has as much wealth as the bottom 45% of all americans. Given that example, how would you be surprised that the richest (wealthiest) have most of the wealth in the world?
Standing in line for someone else to make a little money is "ugliness," but standing in line to sell a PS3 on ebay to make a little money is praised as the natural behavior of any geek. Please!
How does he know that he cast a vote for himself? Depending on the type of machine, you not only have to select yourself, but you have to go to the end of the ballot and submit it.
Remember why we are in this situation. There were people in Florida who couldn't line up Al Gore with the hole to punch, instead punching the hole for Pat Buchanan. I'm not sure voting machines are any easier for voters to use than punch card voting tablets. Some people are going to have trouble operating any type of voting equipment. Haven't you ever bubbled the wrong bubble with a number 2 pencil?
I bought a new Dell just before XP came out and got a coupon for a free upgrade to XP. What I got were upgrade discs, not straight install discs. Later I needed to reinstall XP. First I had to reinstall the original OS, then do the upgrade to XP all over again.
If the Vista upgrade is not capable of doing a clean install, I would stay far away.
As I understand it, the proposition will tax oil taken out of the ground from within California. Oil from within California will now be more expensive. The oil companies will then buy more oil from Alaska or Venezuela and pay the cost of shipping the oil to California. The oil companies may not be allowed to pass on the cost of the tax directly to the consumer, but they will pass on the cost of transporting oil from greater distances. The price of gas will go up, make no mistake about it.
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"The license to use Boot Camp Beta expires when Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard is available to the public."
"Warning: Boot Camp Beta is preview software licensed for use on a trial basis for a limited time. Do not use Boot Camp Beta in a commercial operating environment or with important data. You should back up all of your data before installing this software and regularly back up data while using the software. Your rights to use Boot Camp Beta are subject to acceptance of the terms of the software license agreement that accompanies the software."
Users of Boot Camp Beta did read the terms of use, didn't they?
Question: "so whose arms will they twist?"
Answer: the governments of countries in South America, Asia, Africa, and elsewhere that will be buying the machines.
I have cable service for internet and digital tv. If I watch "Heros" from the tv feed, I pay a tax on the tv service. If I watch the same show after downloading it from nbc.com, I don't have to pay a tax on the internet service. Both downloads come over the same cable in digital form. Please explain why one should be taxed and the other not.
Years ago, when the HP LaserJet 4 first came out, I bought one at Fry's for $1600. Three weeks later, they were selling it for $1200. I didn't whine.
Who hasn't bought a computer, a flat screen tv, or a car where there wasn't a discount or price reduction a few months later? Why would anyone expect the iPhone to be exempt from economics?
Clearly, Apple is doing the right thing as far a public relations are concerned, but the idea that you are entitled to a refund for something you bought two months ago is ridiculous.
The 9th Circuit is the largest circuit, so you would expect more appeals from the 9th Circuit. However, the Supreme Court hears a disproportionately large fraction of appeals from the 9th Circuit. Since the Supreme Court doesn't hear appeals unless a number of Justices believe the decision may have been decided improperly, this is evidence that the Supreme Court has greater difficulty with the decisions of the 9th Circuit than any other. In the last term, 90% of appeals from the 9th Circuit were upheld (19 of 21), i.e., the 9th Circuit was reversed. The 9th Circuit is reversed 9-0 more than any other circuit when not a single Justice agrees with the 9th Circuit.
Apple clearly listed iTunes as a requirment for the iPhone. The original poster does not have a supported iTunes on his 64-bit Windows system. Apple doesn't have a supported iTunes for 64-bit Windows. http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301 301
He should have known he didn't meet the requirements, since he didn't have a supported iTunes installed. This is a well known issue with iTunes, not a surprise that suddenly appeared on June 29. The Apple article was created April 7, 2005.
Good reference! You linked the web site of the group of which the plaintiff is the national director. Obviously an unbiased source.
The plaintiffs have just defeated their own case. The macbook and macbook pro do display millions of colors as advertised, just not running OS X. They should be complaining about OS X being advertised falsely, not the macbooks.
Link to UCSD news release with pictures.
I follow your advice. I never buy things from Apple that I can't install myself. I always buy things I can't install from other vendors. I only buy from Apple things I can install by myself.
How does this respond to the pressure that Apple has been under in Europe about the close ties between the Apple Store and the iPod? Now that some songs can be purchased DRM free that can be played on any player, is Apple home free?
This isn't just for the internet. If I go to Nevada and buy a new car and bring it back to my home in California, the law says I need to register (license) it in California and pay the use (sales) tax just as if I had bought it in California. The same is true of furniture, a new tv, or any other item I buy out-of-state and bring back to California as a new item.
Purchases from a mail order catalog are treated the same way by the law.
I bought a computer 2 months before XP came out. It had ME on it, but came with a coupon for the upgrade, which I got and installed. Later, when the hard drive died, I bought a new hard drive and had to install ME, then do the upgrade to XP again.
This is nothing new.
From a quote in the Inquirer article. ",,,INQ reader Brad Steffler, MD, who brought the report to our attention. 'As a physician who uses PCs for image review before I perform surgery, this situation is intolerable.' "
OK, so the submitter couldn't distiguish the quote from the INQ submitter from the subject of the article, but at least he didn't make the whole thing up.
Al
People with high incomes pay most of the income taxes. After paying their taxes, they accumulate wealth. Most countries don't have a direct wealth tax (give us 10% of everything you own). So the fact that people with high incomes also have most of the wealth is not surprising, and it has nothing to do with whether the income tax is progressive.
The site that shows you how you stand in the world on income also states that Bill Gates by himself has as much wealth as the bottom 45% of all americans. Given that example, how would you be surprised that the richest (wealthiest) have most of the wealth in the world?
Hackers and Spammers no longer support Windows 95. It's too hard to write worms, bots, and viri that are backward compatible.
Standing in line for someone else to make a little money is "ugliness," but standing in line to sell a PS3 on ebay to make a little money is praised as the natural behavior of any geek. Please!
How does he know that he cast a vote for himself? Depending on the type of machine, you not only have to select yourself, but you have to go to the end of the ballot and submit it.
Remember why we are in this situation. There were people in Florida who couldn't line up Al Gore with the hole to punch, instead punching the hole for Pat Buchanan. I'm not sure voting machines are any easier for voters to use than punch card voting tablets. Some people are going to have trouble operating any type of voting equipment. Haven't you ever bubbled the wrong bubble with a number 2 pencil?
I bought a new Dell just before XP came out and got a coupon for a free upgrade to XP. What I got were upgrade discs, not straight install discs. Later I needed to reinstall XP. First I had to reinstall the original OS, then do the upgrade to XP all over again.
If the Vista upgrade is not capable of doing a clean install, I would stay far away.
When investigative journalists do this, they win a Pulitzer Prize. When someone investigates a journalist, the media screams to high heaven.
I love the double standard that journalists employ.
As I understand it, the proposition will tax oil taken out of the ground from within California. Oil from within California will now be more expensive. The oil companies will then buy more oil from Alaska or Venezuela and pay the cost of shipping the oil to California. The oil companies may not be allowed to pass on the cost of the tax directly to the consumer, but they will pass on the cost of transporting oil from greater distances. The price of gas will go up, make no mistake about it.
Not even close. "150 euros & 39,95 euros per month. An extra100 euros buys a flat screen, webcam, keyboard & mouse."
It's just like your free phone when you agree to pay $60 a month for two years to your mobile company.
It's "Free" because it runs linux.
Don't you guys on slashdot get this freedom thing yet?
The issue isn't about linking or copyright or caching. Google lost the case. They removed the offending content.
The issue was whether the judge could require Google to publish his opinion on the front page of Google.
Question 1) If the NY Times lost a case, could a judge order them to use the whole front page to publish her opinion?
Question 2) if you lost a case, could a judge order you to buy the front page of the LA Times to publish his opinion?
Perhaps this is some Belgian thing, where a judge can require losing defendants to publish the judge's opinion on the front page of a national paper.
To our Belgian friends: is this a common practice?
Al
... from purchasing a CD?
1) Because you don't have to buy the whole album
2) It is cheaper
3) You put the needle on the record yourself (try that with a cd)
4) You can watch the record spin (possible with some cd turntables, but not most players)
5) Profit!
"so we'll play AAC natively." Quote from J. Allard in Engadget http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/14/the-engadget-in terview-j-allard-microsoft-corporate-vice-presi/