So I took my number and went to iTunes.com. What a mess! What I was looking for was a place where I could enter my code and get a song. Instead, there was a confusing assortment of links like "Download", "Music Store", "Jukebox"... noplace that says "Enter your code here".
Gee, you mean that big icon on the main page of the music store, consisting of a Pepsi symbol with the text "REDEEM SONG", wasn't obvious enough, Mr. Savvy? Heeeere's your sign.
Wow, looks like the New York Times has outsourced their journalism to overseas, apparently to people who learned English by reading IRS instructions. Of course, given their recent record of plagiarism and people lying on resumes, why wouldn't they pay less for the same incompetence?
It's actually quite common in the medical field. Eli Lilly is about to release/has just released a drug to fight various (scary) blood diseases. Because of the nature of blood infections, it was a tricky process. They spent twenty years and over one billion US dollars to get that drug to market.
OGG isn't "where it's at" because everybody is too afraid to "innovate" and blaze a new path by taking a chance on an unknown, even a higher-quality, less expensive one.
Is it possible, is it conceivable, that except for a few of us geeks, no one cares? And if no one cares, why would a company pour money into soemthing that won't make them money? Didn't you learn anything from the.com bubble?
Not to mention that carrying around an eMac at the gym wouldn't have the same "coolness factor" as an iPod, despite it's larger color display, wireless support, GarageBand, etc.
Not to mention the cost of multiple hernia operations...
Look, when I get a call, I answer it and skedaddle to a place where I won't bother people. I also let the person on the other side know that I'm moving to a private area.
Part of the reason I particularly dislike the walkie-talkie type cell phones is that you hear both sides of the conversation. I wonder how many callers know that they are being broadcast across a room.
Hm, maybe I could go up to the guy and ask "Mr. Franz" for his autograph and keep hounding him.
I don't know how many times a wanker with one of those walkie-talkie phones has ruined a meal for me. I have been tempted to stand behind the person making comments as if he/she is in a massage parlor, not at lunch, as a way of revenge. I haven't done it, though.
Yet.
However, one time I was in a bathroom and the guy in the next stall took a call on his cell phone. I immediately made all sorts of grunting, straining, and moaning noises as if I were trying to pass a moose. He hung up after twenty seconds, and before he could say anything to me, I thanked him and returned to the quiet matter at hand.
I've purchased five new Macs since 1994. In that time I've had one bearing go bad on a fan and a hard drive give up the ghost on a then-five-year-old 6500; a bearing go bad on an 'Superdrive'; and one bad stick of RAM. The first problem was hardly a knock on Apple; that 6500 was used to death (and is still going strong). The RAM was replaced immediately for free, with apologies. Ditto the Superdrive, with ditto. All the service was friendly and quick.
Yeah, the only problem I have are with those Midwestern thunderstorms and tornados knocking down lines. I can't exactly blame them on the power company.
I refuse to read any more in a thread when slashdot posters start discussing fashion. It's like hearing Bill Clinton talk about the dangers of marital infidelity.
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Gee, you mean that big icon on the main page of the music store, consisting of a Pepsi symbol with the text "REDEEM SONG", wasn't obvious enough, Mr. Savvy? Heeeere's your sign.
Oh, piffle. The music industry has always been run by the mob.
They'll make it up in volume.
The IRS and the mafia ... which is tantamount to the same thing, come to think of it.
You've obviously never worked for a government agency or a Fortune 500 company.
Is it possible, is it conceivable, that except for a few of us geeks, no one cares? And if no one cares, why would a company pour money into soemthing that won't make them money? Didn't you learn anything from the .com bubble?
Not if the price is more than a bullet's.
Yes, they have to sell them to pay toff the IRS. (Sorry, but April 15 always puts me in this mood.)
A lot of Americans speak foreign. Y'all ever been to New Yawk? Them people talk funny.
Not to mention the cost of multiple hernia operations ...
Oh? When's the last time you got mugged by someone who was driving a car?
And this is bad because ... ?
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Part of the reason I particularly dislike the walkie-talkie type cell phones is that you hear both sides of the conversation. I wonder how many callers know that they are being broadcast across a room.
Hm, maybe I could go up to the guy and ask "Mr. Franz" for his autograph and keep hounding him.
Yet.
However, one time I was in a bathroom and the guy in the next stall took a call on his cell phone. I immediately made all sorts of grunting, straining, and moaning noises as if I were trying to pass a moose. He hung up after twenty seconds, and before he could say anything to me, I thanked him and returned to the quiet matter at hand.
I guess we can expect it in 2013 at the earliest.
Ah, but they didn't say which decade.
s/home computer/\1 and non-IT work/g;
Yes, AOL.
(Okay, that was obvious. Sorry.)
There's a funk band in Harrisonburg, PA?!?!