it is increasingly being used to answer discount retailing's rabbinical questions, like how many cashiers are needed during certain hours at a particular store.
Then how come every time I go there they have about 2 of 40 frickin' checkout lanes open, and a dozen people in line at each one? Good call on the number of cashiers.
I wasn't trying to be "official" with my terminology. So I lumped sin and luxury. One mans luxury is another's sin. Or something.
But fine: tax candy bars. But not bread, meat, and veggies. The problem lies in the separation of those at the point of sale.
Logistically it's difficult; in some places, there's tax on prepared food (i.e., you can eat it NOW, e.g. an ice cream sundae) but not on packaged food (i.e., you store it a while at home, THEN eat it, e.g., a bucket of ice cream).
Cigarettes ARE a luxury. They just happen to be easily separated from necessities, whereas many small-ticket luxuries are not.
Good points, but I don't think the tobacco tax increase in CO is a persecution of smokers. It's a tax on a luxury item that is not necessary. I'd much rather they tax that than groceries. (Actually I don't smoke, 'cept a cigar now and then - but the same applies to booze, in which I am known to partake). The point is, tax luxury items. Don't want to pay the tax, then live without the luxury item.
They're still busy breeding the Longhorn Cat. They excluded some cool features (no poop, always friendly, avoids the computer when it pees) to make the 2007 release date, but the hypo-allergenic stuff should be in there.
Tech: Is it on? Official: How do I tell? Tech: The FIVE lights on the front will be lit. Official: There are FOUR lights. Tech: So it's off? Hit the power button under the FIVE lights. Official: You're not listening. There are FOUR lights. Tech: What do you mean, FOUR lights? Official: I mean there are FOUR lights!
Commoditization of PPC hardware, if it followed from Windows running on PPC, would feedback and help Apple. With higher demand for PPC chips, they'd be cheaper, giving Apple the option of a) boosting profits or b) lowering prices, whichever is most appropriate for the market at the time. Basically, the cost of hardware argument for not adopting OSX could be eliminated. Also, it'd be easier to port Win/PPC apps to OSX than Win/x86 apps. (of course, porting those to Win/PPC in the first place would be a pain.)
The catalyst needed is an incentive for people to use a Win/PPC machine instead of a Wintel machine. Not sure what that would be, except for a massive performance gap appearing with PPC the clear and undisputed performance champ by a huge margin.
The breakup of the control ship in The Phantom Menace was actually quite nicely done. Not sure why they couldn't redo the Alderaan and DS explosions for the DVD release.
In addition to those arguments, any player with a radio tuner is technically not allowed to be on during a commercial airline flight. And I do love my iPod on a 6 hour flight.
Ewoks get a bad rap. Sure, they were furry and cute, and you could see the zippers... but they carried spears and wanted to barbecue and EAT Han et al. Plus, they had big... sharp... pointy... TEETH! Fuzzy little cannibalistic attack machines, they were.
It helps greatly to have a both-sides-play laserdisc player. Many movies you don't have to flip at all (if CLV encoded and 2 hours). You may be able to find such a player relatively cheap, used or surplus (check university surplus auctions).
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Find a used laserdisc player. You can find the orig. trilogy, remastered THX but pre-extra shite, for pretty cheap now on LD. Damn good quality (almost DVD quality), surround sound, etc. I've been enjoying them for years. I suppose you could borrow a LD player and hook it up to computer and burn over to DVD if you were inclined.
I love the laserdiscs though. Big, beautiful cover art. The Empire Strikes Back LD cover is a thing of beauty.
Did you READ the article? If real (and that's not a small if), it paints a picture of al-Q that is very unlike the one painted by the Bush administration. It presents the idea that actions such as Iraq II will SUPPORT, not hurt, the terrorist cause. This is an article that should generate anti-Bush sentiment, if anything.
I can't cite links, but I went to Tech and I knew people who were in charge of the project.
And you are right, being the cheapest solution included some estimation of the amount of labor needed to put the things together. The got volunteers to pop the network cards in and put the towers in the racks, but they would have needed to pay people (or spend much more time) to assemble entire systems from scratch.
Apple gave them no price break on the G5 towers. The systems were purchased at EDU pricing straight from the Apple Store, online.
Apple DID cut them some slack on the additional RAM, charging industry-norm prices for the memory instead of their usual markup. They probably saved them some money on the sidegrade to Xserves, too, but I don't know the details.
Anyway, when the initial cost assessment was done, the G5s were cheapest not because of a price break, but because they were... well... cheapest.
Airport security should arrest anyone with socks on, as they might be used to bludgeon those passengers who SPRING for their cell phones the INSTANT the stewardess says they can.
Their Pro software does this (eg Final Cut Pro, DVD Studio Pro...). Their OS and "commodity" software they'd rather see widely distributed by piracy than inconvenience those who do buy it with license keys.
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No. But I am waiting eagerly for CSI: Middle Earth.
It appears the mobileBURN is a good name for their server...
I wasn't trying to be "official" with my terminology. So I lumped sin and luxury. One mans luxury is another's sin. Or something.
But fine: tax candy bars. But not bread, meat, and veggies. The problem lies in the separation of those at the point of sale.
Logistically it's difficult; in some places, there's tax on prepared food (i.e., you can eat it NOW, e.g. an ice cream sundae) but not on packaged food (i.e., you store it a while at home, THEN eat it, e.g., a bucket of ice cream).
Cigarettes ARE a luxury. They just happen to be easily separated from necessities, whereas many small-ticket luxuries are not.
Good points, but I don't think the tobacco tax increase in CO is a persecution of smokers. It's a tax on a luxury item that is not necessary. I'd much rather they tax that than groceries. (Actually I don't smoke, 'cept a cigar now and then - but the same applies to booze, in which I am known to partake). The point is, tax luxury items. Don't want to pay the tax, then live without the luxury item.
They're still busy breeding the Longhorn Cat. They excluded some cool features (no poop, always friendly, avoids the computer when it pees) to make the 2007 release date, but the hypo-allergenic stuff should be in there.
Slashdot!
Tech: Is it on?
Official: How do I tell?
Tech: The FIVE lights on the front will be lit.
Official: There are FOUR lights.
Tech: So it's off? Hit the power button under the FIVE lights.
Official: You're not listening. There are FOUR lights.
Tech: What do you mean, FOUR lights?
Official: I mean there are FOUR lights!
Commoditization of PPC hardware, if it followed from Windows running on PPC, would feedback and help Apple. With higher demand for PPC chips, they'd be cheaper, giving Apple the option of a) boosting profits or b) lowering prices, whichever is most appropriate for the market at the time. Basically, the cost of hardware argument for not adopting OSX could be eliminated. Also, it'd be easier to port Win/PPC apps to OSX than Win/x86 apps. (of course, porting those to Win/PPC in the first place would be a pain.)
The catalyst needed is an incentive for people to use a Win/PPC machine instead of a Wintel machine. Not sure what that would be, except for a massive performance gap appearing with PPC the clear and undisputed performance champ by a huge margin.
The breakup of the control ship in The Phantom Menace was actually quite nicely done. Not sure why they couldn't redo the Alderaan and DS explosions for the DVD release.
In addition to those arguments, any player with a radio tuner is technically not allowed to be on during a commercial airline flight. And I do love my iPod on a 6 hour flight.
like those old Immodium commercials...
"It's not a good time fo diarrhea."
When, pray tell, IS a good time for diarrhea?
Ewoks get a bad rap. Sure, they were furry and cute, and you could see the zippers... but they carried spears and wanted to barbecue and EAT Han et al. Plus, they had big... sharp... pointy... TEETH! Fuzzy little cannibalistic attack machines, they were.
http://nextlevelmedia.cc/DW/ESB.html
The covers on the other 2 movies are similarly kickass, but I like this one best.
It helps greatly to have a both-sides-play laserdisc player. Many movies you don't have to flip at all (if CLV encoded and 2 hours). You may be able to find such a player relatively cheap, used or surplus (check university surplus auctions).
Find a used laserdisc player. You can find the orig. trilogy, remastered THX but pre-extra shite, for pretty cheap now on LD. Damn good quality (almost DVD quality), surround sound, etc. I've been enjoying them for years. I suppose you could borrow a LD player and hook it up to computer and burn over to DVD if you were inclined.
I love the laserdiscs though. Big, beautiful cover art. The Empire Strikes Back LD cover is a thing of beauty.
Did you READ the article? If real (and that's not a small if), it paints a picture of al-Q that is very unlike the one painted by the Bush administration. It presents the idea that actions such as Iraq II will SUPPORT, not hurt, the terrorist cause. This is an article that should generate anti-Bush sentiment, if anything.
I can't cite links, but I went to Tech and I knew people who were in charge of the project.
And you are right, being the cheapest solution included some estimation of the amount of labor needed to put the things together. The got volunteers to pop the network cards in and put the towers in the racks, but they would have needed to pay people (or spend much more time) to assemble entire systems from scratch.
Apple gave them no price break on the G5 towers. The systems were purchased at EDU pricing straight from the Apple Store, online.
Apple DID cut them some slack on the additional RAM, charging industry-norm prices for the memory instead of their usual markup. They probably saved them some money on the sidegrade to Xserves, too, but I don't know the details.
Anyway, when the initial cost assessment was done, the G5s were cheapest not because of a price break, but because they were... well... cheapest.
Yeah... everyone will have ADD with these messages distracting them everywhere.
Imagine the /. effect from a beowulf cluster of these.
Actually, it doesn't play on my Mac either - Quicktime has not the codec for the AVI. Can anyone actually watch this thing?
Airport security should arrest anyone with socks on, as they might be used to bludgeon those passengers who SPRING for their cell phones the INSTANT the stewardess says they can.
Oh, wait...
Their Pro software does this (eg Final Cut Pro, DVD Studio Pro...). Their OS and "commodity" software they'd rather see widely distributed by piracy than inconvenience those who do buy it with license keys.