Not only do you have to feed your personal info to Amazon by placing the order, but to get your rebate, you need to feed rebate.com as well.
Even if you use a throwaway email address and a 555-1212 phone number, that'll still probably mean more junk snailmail coming to my house.
An aside: I was at Sam's Club the other day and was told that I had to get an updated membership card. When the girl was doublechecking my info, she asked, "I have '555-1212' as your current phone number. Is that right?" I said yes and she just continued on. I'm debating on whether she knew what the number was or not.
Try to think of cutting it on all sides, not just the top
Actually, you can do this with three cuts through the top. Make the first two cuts above, then make a circular cut through the top to give you eight pieces.
I like the system that Apple has put into their G4 Towers. There's a spring-loaded clip with a hole in it that pulls out of the back of the case. You can slip a cable/padlock/whatever through this which prevents the clip from springing back into the case.
When the clip is out, the EZ-flip-down-door on the side of the case is locked, preventing unnoticable intrusion.
But this is on top of the $50/mo I'm already paying for having the cable come to my house. They probably make far more off of this, since many more people have just cable compared to cable+internet.
I had trouble using OmniWeb for my online banking as well. The funny thing is, all I did was go to the "Compatability" preference panel and and change the browser identification to "IE 5.1 for MacOS X" and my online bank site worked perfectly.
I would support the fee being paid up front, just as long as there was some form of redemption when it gets disposed of. The problem is, someone has to pay for the recycling and that's where the fee would go, so no rebate for you!
I suppose if you paid a larger fee up front for the various components, and got a portion of it back at the end, that might work.
I just wonder if that's a fee that everyone would get used to, or would an extra $100+ on the price of a system cut into sales?
I wonder how much less soda was consumed in Michigan when the price per can went up by 10 cents?
I pay a fee for oil disposal when it gets changed. I pay a fee for tire disposal, when I change my tires.
Personally, since I've never had to dispose of a computer (I still have all but one that I've ever bought, the other one I sold) Why should I get stuck with a disposal fee that I may never use?
Why not just make it illegal to throw away monitors, etc. in the regular trash, then have a collection point with a fee for disposal, just like oil and tires?
On my Win2K machine at work, a/. article with 200 replies render within seconds. On my G4/400 at home, the same page could take 30 seconds or more to render. What's worse, I get the "spinning CD cursor of doom" while it renders, so I can't even click on Stop or Back.
Here's my problem: Suppose I have a compilation CD, like the Movie X soundtrack for instance. When I rip the CD in iTunes, it goes to CDDB to fill in all the album info. Movie X gets filled in for the album name, and the artist fields are filled in by the artist who did each song.
Now, after I sync with my iPod, how do I play the Movie X soundtrack? Can't go under Artists, because the album has been split up amongst the 12 different artists who did songs for the soundtrack. The only workaround is to make a playlist for each album I have and go that way, but then you've lost one of the reasons for having that data there in the first place.
Now I'm not saying that you need to be able to sort your collection by every ID3 field available, but it would seem that Album would be an obvious one to have stuck in there.
Although, come to think of it, why not? If I feel that it is important that I have set my iTunes view to show Title, Album, Artist, and Genre, then why couldn't iTunes pass that along to the iPod so that the Main Menu showed those four?
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Not only do you have to feed your personal info to Amazon by placing the order, but to get your rebate, you need to feed rebate.com as well.
Even if you use a throwaway email address and a 555-1212 phone number, that'll still probably mean more junk snailmail coming to my house.
An aside: I was at Sam's Club the other day and was told that I had to get an updated membership card. When the girl was doublechecking my info, she asked, "I have '555-1212' as your current phone number. Is that right?" I said yes and she just continued on. I'm debating on whether she knew what the number was or not.
Use this...
Actually, you can do this with three cuts through the top. Make the first two cuts above, then make a circular cut through the top to give you eight pieces.
This way, everyone gets frosting!
Because it's that shape of the people that climb down the holes?
Wow. I wonder what their Distributed.net keyrate would be?
...and still no comments relating to the actual review ...
Killer app
I like the system that Apple has put into their G4 Towers. There's a spring-loaded clip with a hole in it that pulls out of the back of the case. You can slip a cable/padlock/whatever through this which prevents the clip from springing back into the case.
When the clip is out, the EZ-flip-down-door on the side of the case is locked, preventing unnoticable intrusion.
Ah, but you know you're a veteran Mac user if you can remember "Clink-Clank"!
But this is on top of the $50/mo I'm already paying for having the cable come to my house. They probably make far more off of this, since many more people have just cable compared to cable+internet.
So much for being able to get new and exciting cses from Apple.
A half melon with a flatscreen monitor sticking out on a pole is not new and exciting?
I had trouble using OmniWeb for my online banking as well. The funny thing is, all I did was go to the "Compatability" preference panel and and change the browser identification to "IE 5.1 for MacOS X" and my online bank site worked perfectly.
But prosperous enough to afford a PC and the bandwidth necessary to download this sucker...
Could someone please tape this for me?
I thought the highest the SE/30's could go was 7.6.whatever the last update was...
So if I use fobbit to circumvent Creative's own software, is that like using bnetd to circumvent Battle.net?
Here come the lawsuits... :P
RTFA.
Jar Jar will have a "blissfully small" role in AOTC.
I would support the fee being paid up front, just as long as there was some form of redemption when it gets disposed of. The problem is, someone has to pay for the recycling and that's where the fee would go, so no rebate for you!
I suppose if you paid a larger fee up front for the various components, and got a portion of it back at the end, that might work.
I just wonder if that's a fee that everyone would get used to, or would an extra $100+ on the price of a system cut into sales?
I wonder how much less soda was consumed in Michigan when the price per can went up by 10 cents?
I pay a fee for oil disposal when it gets changed. I pay a fee for tire disposal, when I change my tires.
Personally, since I've never had to dispose of a computer (I still have all but one that I've ever bought, the other one I sold) Why should I get stuck with a disposal fee that I may never use?
Why not just make it illegal to throw away monitors, etc. in the regular trash, then have a collection point with a fee for disposal, just like oil and tires?
I'm using the latest version of IE. On a fresh install of OSX.
I haven't done a speed test with OmniWeb. I'd like to make the switch, but I can't use it 100% until I can open up my online banking page with it.
On my Win2K machine at work, a /. article with 200 replies render within seconds. On my G4/400 at home, the same page could take 30 seconds or more to render. What's worse, I get the "spinning CD cursor of doom" while it renders, so I can't even click on Stop or Back.
So sue me...
95,791 whole songs available instantly.
Ad slogan: "The new iCray. 95,791 songs. In half your basement."
Here's my problem: Suppose I have a compilation CD, like the Movie X soundtrack for instance. When I rip the CD in iTunes, it goes to CDDB to fill in all the album info. Movie X gets filled in for the album name, and the artist fields are filled in by the artist who did each song.
Now, after I sync with my iPod, how do I play the Movie X soundtrack? Can't go under Artists, because the album has been split up amongst the 12 different artists who did songs for the soundtrack. The only workaround is to make a playlist for each album I have and go that way, but then you've lost one of the reasons for having that data there in the first place.
Now I'm not saying that you need to be able to sort your collection by every ID3 field available, but it would seem that Album would be an obvious one to have stuck in there.
Although, come to think of it, why not? If I feel that it is important that I have set my iTunes view to show Title, Album, Artist, and Genre, then why couldn't iTunes pass that along to the iPod so that the Main Menu showed those four?
Sigh. Still waiting for View by Album in addition to playlist and artist. Not a show-killer by any means, but it still would be convienient.