While having been a trekkie for years, I feel that I can spend my money in better ways elsewhere.
Sure, there are always better ways to spend money than having memorabilia and a piece of history in your house, but if you (or better I:) have disposable income to spend on trivial kinds of stuff like this, its really cool. There are people that have original copies of the Declaration of Independence, Mozart scores, all kinds of stuff that, well, you can't buy at Wal-mart, and frankly few people have one/few of a kind of thing(s) in their posession. Its actually quite cool. In fact, soon after recently watching Saturday Night Fever again, some friends and I were discussing about how cool it would be to have the original dance floor in my house. Well, not soon after that it went up for auction. I still wish I had it, but didn't have the cash then or now.
The iPod is a) simple, b) reliable, c) user-friendly, d) cool, e) well designed and f) ties in well with iTunes
g) its an iPod
I don't have a mobile music unit yet, because none of the available ones meet my standards/needs yet, but when I talk about what I want, I have to say, "Its like an iPod, but...". Brand recognition goes a _long_ way.
Terrorism is "the systematic use of terror especially as a means of coercion."
Isn't there a rule about using a word in the definition of a word?
"Terrorism is the unlawful use of force or violence against persons or property to intimidate or coerce a government, the civilian population, or any segment thereof, in furtherance of political or social objectives."
-- US Federal Bureau of Investigation
The key word is "unlawful", otherwise the US federal government would fit the bill.
The mantra, "nothing personal, this is just business" has removed the major factor stopping employees from screwing over their employer.
Some companies (eg, Google) encourage "employee time" to be spent on private ventures. But also there is the oxymoron behind making money off of "free" stuff. Many of the new services offered by Google were once personal projects. Linux, Hotmail, GNU, Wikipedia, and Google itself show that there is money in "free"/hobby/personal kind of stuff. I owe my career to a hobby with free software.
None of those things will EVER happen. Apple has come to understand you can run quite a profitible biz by having 7-10% marketshare.
So have theseguysand small family businesses, and local restaurants vs McDonalds etc, etc, etc.
What is it with people that you have to have substandard quality but 99% market share to be good?
Sure, there is a market for the Dells and Microsofts of the world. Sure there is a market for Wal-Marts of the world. But there also is a market for quality vs quantity and cheap prices. After all. Apple is currently 158 on the Fortune 500 list (up from 263 last year), and Dell is 25, Microsoft 58.
Personally, I'm much happier typing this on an Apple than I would be in IE on a Dell...
Did anyone else notice that the article was practically empty? That it was maybe, at most, five hundred words? Sorry, correct that, I just ran it through a word processor: 240 words in the article, not counting title, byline, or advertising. The article had NO MEANING. It was one of those things you say to your buddies while hanging around.
You must be new here.
First you have the nerve to read the article, then comment on it. Then, you objectively analyze the article, and comment on that.
In all seriousness, why doesn't Apple sell Leopard for like $99 to PC users?
Quality control and control of quality.
One of the things that has plagued Windows over the years is 3rd party drivers and having to support everything under the sun. Same goes with Linux. nVidia drivers with Linux are a PITA and often have issues at least with getting them to work.
When you buy a Mac, it "just works" TM. Its nice. I have 3rd party audio stuff that frankly sucks, but it is clear that it is NOT an Apple thing, and I took the risk of going for the functionality of the 3rd party. Its just so nice being a sysadmin to have personal machines that just work and work well. That would go away and tarnish the OS X and Apple name for $99 on any whitebox out there.
Somehow the guy had made a screenshot while running the application and used that screenshot as Windows wallpaper. Changing the wallpaper got rid of the phantom application;-)
Honestly, screenshots have gotten me confused before.
Especially with OS X and a screenshot on a webpage that includes the drop shadow.
That's another think 5.25" disks got wrong: using a notch taken out to enable writing...
"Back in the day" for "us in the know" we viewed this as a feature. Why? Because we could buy single sided disks that were cheaper than double sided disks and make them double sided by punching a hole on the second side.
Well that does it! No more hanging around polite charming people for me.
Maybe I'm paranoid, but I do not like overly polite, charming males (I'm a male, BTW).
To me, something is creepy about them, and yes, many psychopaths are polite, charming people. The other quality of many psychopaths (a different subset than the polite, charming ones) is that they are "cutetsy".
Also, FWIW, Bundy was praised at the conviction of his trial by the judge (Bundy represented himself) as being a very competent lawyer.
As an Atheist, I get no satisfaction from him keeling over. I literally feel robbed, and I had no money in their company. The people who did probably feel robbed all over again.
Regardless of one's belief about heaven/hell, one can believe in a collective consciousness as a heaven/hell here on Earth.
Having everyone who knows Kenneth Lay's name and associate it with negativity, and even other people that exhibit similar behavior and being labeled as similar to a Kenneth Lay is some sense of karma or hell in my eye, and no god or spiritual beliefs are necessary.
Maybe it's just me here but in every paranoid guy's head this is going to come across as "They knew, they just let it happen".
Conspiracy theories aside, but as it stands now, if "they did know, and just let it happen", according to the US federal government, was 9/11/01 a bad thing or a good thing? What about poor Silverstein?
I have to disagree with that argument: In recent memory, government worked fairly well (not great, but relatively sane) when 2 parties held control of a branch of government (Reagan vs Democratic Congress, Clinton vs Republican Congress), and sucked when a single party controlled all branches of government (George W Bush, Carter).
One of the best arguments for a two party system is that each party just battles the other and nothing actually gets done. Laissez-faire government in disguise:)
Much as it is tempting to espouse wild conspiracy theories, the fact of the matter is governments will always seek as much power as possible, and rarely cede it once gained.
The thing that is nuts, is that I want a revolution in this country, but just to put back the original constitution and the ways that this country was originally set up. It kills me that the people that set up our government 200+ years ago did it mostly right, but since WWII the federal government here has gotten completely (and unconstitutionally) out of hand.
Has there ever been a revolution that just reinstated what was already there? Or does it always start with a clean slate?
They pay low insurance rates *because* they have less accidents. Insurance companies make no gifts. They do math. Very precise mathon large sample sizes.
I'm not sure about the numbers on frequency, but older drivers certainly do have less _expensive_ accidents.
All your liberties have been gradually eroded by the Bush administration.
Not the second amendment buddy. That trumps many of the others that were lost.
Freedom of speech is without question in the presence of the dead. Just makes for a boring audience though, but freedom of speech does not require and audience.
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While having been a trekkie for years, I feel that I can spend my money in better ways elsewhere.
:) have disposable income to spend on trivial kinds of stuff like this, its really cool. There are people that have original copies of the Declaration of Independence, Mozart scores, all kinds of stuff that, well, you can't buy at Wal-mart, and frankly few people have one/few of a kind of thing(s) in their posession. Its actually quite cool. In fact, soon after recently watching Saturday Night Fever again, some friends and I were discussing about how cool it would be to have the original dance floor in my house. Well, not soon after that it went up for auction. I still wish I had it, but didn't have the cash then or now.
Sure, there are always better ways to spend money than having memorabilia and a piece of history in your house, but if you (or better I
The iPod is a) simple, b) reliable, c) user-friendly, d) cool, e) well designed and f) ties in well with iTunes
g) its an iPod
I don't have a mobile music unit yet, because none of the available ones meet my standards/needs yet, but when I talk about what I want, I have to say, "Its like an iPod, but...". Brand recognition goes a _long_ way.
What is the point of AOL?
Yeah, I was going to ask who AOL was, but then I remembered hearing about them in the 90s.
So, what's next? A new Netscape release? Oh yeah, didn't AOL buy^Hry them in 98?
Japanese, like Jews, forgive and forget, because they accept personal responsibility and move on vs place blame and stagnate.
Now, your whitey hating gangster in his Escalade might disagree.
For better or worse, the darker your skin the more prejudice is against you. That is true, even in primarily darker skinned societies.
No, there will never be a prejudice against a white, christian, republican in a society made of white, christian, republicans.
Americans put Japanese in prison camps during WWII, but not German derived folks. Japanese are typically darker than Germans.
Terrorism is "the systematic use of terror especially as a means of coercion."
Isn't there a rule about using a word in the definition of a word?
"Terrorism is the unlawful use of force or violence against persons or property to intimidate or coerce a government, the civilian population, or any segment thereof, in furtherance of political or social objectives."
-- US Federal Bureau of Investigation
The key word is "unlawful", otherwise the US federal government would fit the bill.
just like pot, gay marriage is an issue which has no actual impact on those opposed to it.
Sure it does, it makes those opposed question if they are "right".
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Why would the FBI director Need To Know anything at all at a moment's notice from his desktop PC?
Maybe that is why they (FBI directors) keep quitting on a seemingly unmotivated whim?
The mantra, "nothing personal, this is just business" has removed the major factor stopping employees from screwing over their employer.
Some companies (eg, Google) encourage "employee time" to be spent on private ventures. But also there is the oxymoron behind making money off of "free" stuff. Many of the new services offered by Google were once personal projects. Linux, Hotmail, GNU, Wikipedia, and Google itself show that there is money in "free"/hobby/personal kind of stuff. I owe my career to a hobby with free software.
These are the people protecting me from terrorists? Scary, very scary.
Huh?
What ever gave you that idea? What evidence is there? Next, people will believe that "Homeland Security" is... Or the war in Iraq was...
None of those things will EVER happen. Apple has come to understand you can run quite a profitible biz by having 7-10% marketshare.
So have these guys and small family businesses, and local restaurants vs McDonalds etc, etc, etc.
What is it with people that you have to have substandard quality but 99% market share to be good?
Sure, there is a market for the Dells and Microsofts of the world. Sure there is a market for Wal-Marts of the world. But there also is a market for quality vs quantity and cheap prices. After all. Apple is currently 158 on the Fortune 500 list (up from 263 last year), and Dell is 25, Microsoft 58.
Personally, I'm much happier typing this on an Apple than I would be in IE on a Dell...
Did anyone else notice that the article was practically empty? That it was maybe, at most, five hundred words? Sorry, correct that, I just ran it through a word processor: 240 words in the article, not counting title, byline, or advertising.
The article had NO MEANING. It was one of those things you say to your buddies while hanging around.
You must be new here.
First you have the nerve to read the article, then comment on it. Then, you objectively analyze the article, and comment on that.
Shesh, what is going on?
Is this actually a new OS like the article suggests, or just a new revision of OSX (10.5 or what have you)?
Dunno. 10.4 is faster (and MUCH more buggy) than 10.3, and I believe 10.3 is faster (and less buggy) than 10.2.
If Leopard is better than Tiger, I for one would not be unhappy.
In all seriousness, why doesn't Apple sell Leopard for like $99 to PC users?
Quality control and control of quality.
One of the things that has plagued Windows over the years is 3rd party drivers and having to support everything under the sun. Same goes with Linux. nVidia drivers with Linux are a PITA and often have issues at least with getting them to work.
When you buy a Mac, it "just works" TM. Its nice. I have 3rd party audio stuff that frankly sucks, but it is clear that it is NOT an Apple thing, and I took the risk of going for the functionality of the 3rd party. Its just so nice being a sysadmin to have personal machines that just work and work well. That would go away and tarnish the OS X and Apple name for $99 on any whitebox out there.
We downloaded the shows. HOW IS THAT DIFFERENT?
Because it was on a computer.
Human logic and reasoning stops when a computer is involved.
Evidence? Dot bomb (we can get rich selling dog food _on a computer_!), MP3s (they are still practically "illegal"), and downloading TV, etc, etc...
Somehow the guy had made a screenshot while running the application and used that screenshot as Windows wallpaper. Changing the wallpaper got rid of the phantom application ;-)
Honestly, screenshots have gotten me confused before.
Especially with OS X and a screenshot on a webpage that includes the drop shadow.
What part of NETBACKUP don't you understand?
I've often wanted to ask users "What part of 'No such file or directory' don't you understand?"
To me that is one of the clearest error messages, but maybe all of the other unclear ones make that one unclear as well.
That's another think 5.25" disks got wrong: using a notch taken out to enable writing...
"Back in the day" for "us in the know" we viewed this as a feature. Why? Because we could buy single sided disks that were cheaper than double sided disks and make them double sided by punching a hole on the second side.
Oh, and that worked with 8" floppies as well.
Well that does it! No more hanging around polite charming people for me.
Maybe I'm paranoid, but I do not like overly polite, charming males (I'm a male, BTW).
To me, something is creepy about them, and yes, many psychopaths are polite, charming people. The other quality of many psychopaths (a different subset than the polite, charming ones) is that they are "cutetsy".
Also, FWIW, Bundy was praised at the conviction of his trial by the judge (Bundy represented himself) as being a very competent lawyer.
As an Atheist, I get no satisfaction from him keeling over. I literally feel robbed, and I had no money in their company. The people who did probably feel robbed all over again.
Regardless of one's belief about heaven/hell, one can believe in a collective consciousness as a heaven/hell here on Earth.
Having everyone who knows Kenneth Lay's name and associate it with negativity, and even other people that exhibit similar behavior and being labeled as similar to a Kenneth Lay is some sense of karma or hell in my eye, and no god or spiritual beliefs are necessary.
Maybe it's just me here but in every paranoid guy's head this is going to come across as "They knew, they just let it happen".
Conspiracy theories aside, but as it stands now, if "they did know, and just let it happen", according to the US federal government, was 9/11/01 a bad thing or a good thing? What about poor Silverstein?
I have to disagree with that argument: In recent memory, government worked fairly well (not great, but relatively sane) when 2 parties held control of a branch of government (Reagan vs Democratic Congress, Clinton vs Republican Congress), and sucked when a single party controlled all branches of government (George W Bush, Carter).
:)
One of the best arguments for a two party system is that each party just battles the other and nothing actually gets done. Laissez-faire government in disguise
Much as it is tempting to espouse wild conspiracy theories, the fact of the matter is governments will always seek as much power as possible, and rarely cede it once gained.
The thing that is nuts, is that I want a revolution in this country, but just to put back the original constitution and the ways that this country was originally set up. It kills me that the people that set up our government 200+ years ago did it mostly right, but since WWII the federal government here has gotten completely (and unconstitutionally) out of hand.
Has there ever been a revolution that just reinstated what was already there? Or does it always start with a clean slate?
They pay low insurance rates *because* they have less accidents. Insurance companies make no gifts. They do math. Very precise mathon large sample sizes.
I'm not sure about the numbers on frequency, but older drivers certainly do have less _expensive_ accidents.
All your liberties have been gradually eroded by the Bush administration.
Not the second amendment buddy. That trumps many of the others that were lost.
Freedom of speech is without question in the presence of the dead. Just makes for a boring audience though, but freedom of speech does not require and audience.