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Well, we had it tough. Back when I was at school, the closest thing we had to a notebook was 200 sheets of paper bound in metal spirals that were always snagging on each other, or they'd get smushed and the pages wouldn't turn. Don't talk to me about Kapros.
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For two or more years, Bob and Tom have been offering MP3s of their shows to subscribers to their premium service. Is this really all that different/newsworthy? Or is the media as bribable by press agents as I've often suspected?
From quick scan of Apple's list http://www.apple.com/retail it looks like about 35 or so U.S. states have Apple stores, with most of those having 3 or less stores serving the entire state. I don't know if that covers "the majority" of the population or not, but even if you live in SoCal (with about 10 stores) there's likely more Blockbusters than Apple stores, and they're probably closer.
And if you overlay that map with a map of where the NFL, NBA, and MLB teams are in the US, you will see that they align pretty darn closely. And who knew, but those major league pro sports franchises tend to be in large population centers. In fact, when you do find one that isn't (ie the Green Bay Packers), there are odd historical reasons for it. Remember, half of the US population lives within thirty miles of an ocean, so there are vast swaths of America that are (relatively) underpopulated.
The Macintosh uses an experimental pointing device called a "mouse". There is no evidence that people want to use these things.
- John C. Dvorak, SF Examiner, Feb. 1984.
If Dvorak had half a brain, he'd still be suffering under a synapse deficit.
Wait, does this mean that the guys at perlmonks will try to recreate WoW in as few keystrokes as possible? Or that the people playing it will be oblivious and dress funny? <--- PUNCHLINE HERE...
Except that, at one time, Apple was THE option in US education. However, DOS/Windows became the staple of business, largely riding on the back of the "nobody ever got fired for going with IBM" mentality. People purchased a home computer based on this, and schools were convinced by the type of middle management fusspots that get on school boards that they should get kids on Windows ASAP. There were other factors involved, of course, but that was part of what led to Apple losing its dominance in education.
Of course, whenever someone makes that "Think of the children!" argument, I tend to smack my lips and say "Mmm, delicious!"
With Windows all you're ever going to get is a nice Fisher Price interface with layer upon layer of extra crap piled on top trying to make up for the ridiculously poor quality of the base system and its architecture.
I deny this vehemently! The Fisher Price interface is an ugly pile of crap which rides to school on the short bus and whose mother dresses it funny.
Bah, it's something these whippersnappers are using today, like hula hoops and fax machines. Why, give me a sweaty orphan on horseback being chased by p*ssed off Injuns any day of the week!
I thought that there were African slaves in America before Columbus arrived. Certainly the Spaniards didn't introduce the practice to these continents. Many local tribes (like, say, the Aztecs and Incans) practiced it. Also, the Norse were in the New World centuries before, and they were known to have practiced slavery, though to what extent they had it in Greenland I don't know.
There is a gerat book called "Lies My Teacher Told Me" (I cannot remember the name of the author) that talks about certain documented facts that are never taught in history classes. One is that Columbus knew that there was a new world to the west. He had been to Iceland a few times, and there were still Norsemen in Greenland (who would visit Canada for timber, etc, and had had dealings with the "natives"). On top of this, Columbus had been to "the Gold Coast" of Africa (aka The Slave Coast aka The Ivory Coast) and had met the representatives of the king of Mauritania, if not the king himself, at the time probably the wealthiest man in the world. They had had a few colonies "a few days to the west" in a new land, but they had abandoned them year before, because the locals kept attacking them. So Columbus knew he was sailing to new lands, not India, because he had data from the Norse and the Mauritanians about western lands over the sea.
Fast forward a decade or three. The Aztecs were found to have carvings of men, some of the carvings having definite African facial features. (The book has pictures of these carvings, and yep, they do, whatever the politically correct police might say.) The Aztecs were also growing cotton that was the same type grown in Egypt. On top of this, when Spaniards first landed in South America, near what is now Venezuala, they were talking to a local chieftain and noticed a bunch of African-descended slaves being led through a coastal village. The Spaniards were surprised at this, and asked where the slaves had come from. The chieftain said that they had raided their village a few generations ago and had enslaved them.
So the first African slaves weren't brought here by the Spaniards. Hell, they may well have been brought here by other Africans (the Mauritanians).
Just putting in my $.05 (inflation, taxes, and all that).
The pronunciation of "nuculer" is a regionalism; it's fairly common in the speech of the southern US, particularly near the 'southwest', ie Texas and Oklahoma. As someone pointed out, President Carter pronounced it the same way, and he'd been a nuclear engineer in the navy.
While we're at it, let'd criticize Howard Stern for how he pronounces "mall", Ted Kennedy for how he pronounces "water", or Clarence Thomas for not speaking English as a first language. Oh, wait, people have done that.
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[yorkshiremen]
Well, we had it tough. Back when I was at school, the closest thing we had to a notebook was 200 sheets of paper bound in metal spirals that were always snagging on each other, or they'd get smushed and the pages wouldn't turn. Don't talk to me about Kapros.
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And the iGroove is about $40 cheaper, too. I can't imagine this thing sounding better than a Klipsch, unless they got Klipsch to build it.
And if you overlay that map with a map of where the NFL, NBA, and MLB teams are in the US, you will see that they align pretty darn closely. And who knew, but those major league pro sports franchises tend to be in large population centers. In fact, when you do find one that isn't (ie the Green Bay Packers), there are odd historical reasons for it. Remember, half of the US population lives within thirty miles of an ocean, so there are vast swaths of America that are (relatively) underpopulated.
The Macintosh uses an experimental pointing device called a "mouse". There is no evidence that people want to use these things.
- John C. Dvorak, SF Examiner, Feb. 1984.
If Dvorak had half a brain, he'd still be suffering under a synapse deficit.
Mmm, delicious! Pass the kitten gravy, please.
Oddly enough, this is basically the same argument that a friend of mine uses against social programs. Hmmm...
That's okay, neither do we.
Of course, whenever someone makes that "Think of the children!" argument, I tend to smack my lips and say "Mmm, delicious!"
I deny this vehemently! The Fisher Price interface is an ugly pile of crap which rides to school on the short bus and whose mother dresses it funny.
Bah, it's something these whippersnappers are using today, like hula hoops and fax machines. Why, give me a sweaty orphan on horseback being chased by p*ssed off Injuns any day of the week!
- who's gonna come out first, Axl or Duke ?
WTF, Axl is gay??!??Well, he is from Lafayette, Indiana.
Er, wait, ...
Hey, 100 seconds is a long time if you are waiting in line next to someone else's screaming toddler. It's all a matter of perspective.
There is a gerat book called "Lies My Teacher Told Me" (I cannot remember the name of the author) that talks about certain documented facts that are never taught in history classes. One is that Columbus knew that there was a new world to the west. He had been to Iceland a few times, and there were still Norsemen in Greenland (who would visit Canada for timber, etc, and had had dealings with the "natives"). On top of this, Columbus had been to "the Gold Coast" of Africa (aka The Slave Coast aka The Ivory Coast) and had met the representatives of the king of Mauritania, if not the king himself, at the time probably the wealthiest man in the world. They had had a few colonies "a few days to the west" in a new land, but they had abandoned them year before, because the locals kept attacking them. So Columbus knew he was sailing to new lands, not India, because he had data from the Norse and the Mauritanians about western lands over the sea.
Fast forward a decade or three. The Aztecs were found to have carvings of men, some of the carvings having definite African facial features. (The book has pictures of these carvings, and yep, they do, whatever the politically correct police might say.) The Aztecs were also growing cotton that was the same type grown in Egypt. On top of this, when Spaniards first landed in South America, near what is now Venezuala, they were talking to a local chieftain and noticed a bunch of African-descended slaves being led through a coastal village. The Spaniards were surprised at this, and asked where the slaves had come from. The chieftain said that they had raided their village a few generations ago and had enslaved them.
So the first African slaves weren't brought here by the Spaniards. Hell, they may well have been brought here by other Africans (the Mauritanians).
Just putting in my $.05 (inflation, taxes, and all that).
My friend, you will have to explain Mystery Science Theatre 3000 to me, then.
Not to mention The Rat Pack, Ed Wood, and on and on and on ...
Well, if that ain't worth a dancing banana, I don't know what is. But since we can't image on /.
"Order yourself a box of steaks." ... two boxes, then."
"I'm a vegetarian."
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While we're at it, let'd criticize Howard Stern for how he pronounces "mall", Ted Kennedy for how he pronounces "water", or Clarence Thomas for not speaking English as a first language. Oh, wait, people have done that.