"Hooking directly to your bank account rather than a credit or debit card, CurrentC will use good old ACH to transfer money from your account to the merchant's bank account at little to no cost."
You know damn well that they give it to you for free for now, then there will be fees in the future.
Putting in three new blade chassis for a project that is doomed to failure due to bad architecture and project managements. Their names are Ford, GM and Chrysler.
1 - Don't buy apple RAM. It is officially a user servicable part. HDs are easy enough to replace on your own too.
3. Why is that apple's issue? Other then Numbers.
4. Like Office is any better?
5. No more a pain in the ass the Linux.
the over pricing is a fallacy. Do a side by side comparison with a piece of crap dell speced to the same level and you more often then out that the prices are similar if not lower for the apple.
Why on earth are you doing Maintenace patching during the busiest part of the tax season? All these systems should be DO NOT TOUCH till the filing deadline at least.
You don't think that since they are making this technology publicly known, it's not at least 5 years old and the stuff the that military is actually using is reading what I am typing right now?
Dual booting is for suckers. Get your heads out of the windows world you are used to. You'll be able run your windoze apps natively right from OS X or some virtualization layer. Some software vendor will probably do it first (ie Virtual PC, vmware, etc), but it will eventually be native to the OS. With in a year I bet. Might have to wait for 10.5
When they do this and if the ever let OS X run on commodity hardware. Man, why would you by any other OS?
This is nothing new. There have been video podcasts in the itunes music store since they started carrying them. Diggnation and Command N are two notable examples.
You might (correctly) argue that that's the user's own fault, but I thought it would be part of Apple's approach to recognise "Hey, 99% of people never back up their stuff. We can trivially and very cheaply provide them with a backup service of what is probably their largest set of data, their digital music*. So why don't we do that, and save our customers a ton of inconvenience?"
Liability is one good reason. Well not good, but realistic.
The same reason you can't walk back into your local HMV and say "Someone stole my CD's. Here's my receipt. Give me a new one."
Some one steals you Apple ID and password, logs in on their own computer and downloads all the music you've bought.
Quite possibly the RIAA won't let them.
Shall I keep going?
I've bought a few tracks from iTMS, and I don't ever remember being told or reminded to back them up
I believe there is a pop up window that warns you about this every time you purchase until you check off the "don't warn me any more" box.
At some point, you have to be responsible for your own actions... or inactions as it maybe more appropriate in this case. Some people just have to learn the hard way.
Who cares how much you download. All they are concerned with is that you keep paying your montly fee. Same concept of taking a loss on the cell phone, as long as you keep paying your montly charges. Give the product away for free and charge them a montly fee to use it.
All people see is "oh I get a free cell phone" or "ooo I can down load all the music I want". Hold it, what do mean I can't listen to it any more if I stop paying you monthly Mr Soprano?
Plus Apple's delightful policy of "if your hard disk dies, you're free to buy all the music again!" Gee, thanks.
Your insurance should cover the loss of CD's. It might not be worth it unless you lose your whole collection of hundreds of CDs, but it will cover it.
That begs the question... I wonder if it would cover the loss of downloaded music if your hard drive crashed and you say lost $2000 in music? The equivalent of about 133 CDs at $15 each.
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"Hooking directly to your bank account rather than a credit or debit card, CurrentC will use good old ACH to transfer money from your account to the merchant's bank account at little to no cost."
You know damn well that they give it to you for free for now, then there will be fees in the future.
Putting in three new blade chassis for a project that is doomed to failure due to bad architecture and project managements. Their names are Ford, GM and Chrysler.
Documentation. OK I know it's dirty word.
1 - Don't buy apple RAM. It is officially a user servicable part. HDs are easy enough to replace on your own too.
3. Why is that apple's issue? Other then Numbers.
4. Like Office is any better?
5. No more a pain in the ass the Linux.
the over pricing is a fallacy. Do a side by side comparison with a piece of crap dell speced to the same level and you more often then out that the prices are similar if not lower for the apple.
I wonder how many of them are due to ship to #1 Infinite Loop?
Why on earth are you doing Maintenace patching during the busiest part of the tax season? All these systems should be DO NOT TOUCH till the filing deadline at least.
Less Pocket change... 1 step forward.
Convience charge... 2 steps back.
Let's all play fuck the consumer.
"- A sufficient percentage of English-speaking workers."
What? Have you tried called Dell Tech Support lately?
You don't think that since they are making this technology publicly known, it's not at least 5 years old and the stuff the that military is actually using is reading what I am typing right now?
Where exactly did it say it was going to HELP with over fishing?
A chief security officer? Why did an image of Lt. Worf just pop in my mind?
Because you are a dork.
One word. Spindle-Bound. Ok it was two words, but they are hyphenated.
Dual booting is for suckers. Get your heads out of the windows world you are used to. You'll be able run your windoze apps natively right from OS X or some virtualization layer. Some software vendor will probably do it first (ie Virtual PC, vmware, etc), but it will eventually be native to the OS. With in a year I bet. Might have to wait for 10.5
When they do this and if the ever let OS X run on commodity hardware. Man, why would you by any other OS?
This is nothing new. There have been video podcasts in the itunes music store since they started carrying them. Diggnation and Command N are two notable examples.
Did you know that 16% of all Statistics are incorrect?
I still think they should have used .cum
You might (correctly) argue that that's the user's own fault, but I thought it would be part of Apple's approach to recognise "Hey, 99% of people never back up their stuff. We can trivially and very cheaply provide them with a backup service of what is probably their largest set of data, their digital music*. So why don't we do that, and save our customers a ton of inconvenience?"
Liability is one good reason. Well not good, but realistic.
The same reason you can't walk back into your local HMV and say "Someone stole my CD's. Here's my receipt. Give me a new one."
Some one steals you Apple ID and password, logs in on their own computer and downloads all the music you've bought.
Quite possibly the RIAA won't let them.
Shall I keep going?
I've bought a few tracks from iTMS, and I don't ever remember being told or reminded to back them up
I believe there is a pop up window that warns you about this every time you purchase until you check off the "don't warn me any more" box.
At some point, you have to be responsible for your own actions... or inactions as it maybe more appropriate in this case. Some people just have to learn the hard way.
Who cares how much you download. All they are concerned with is that you keep paying your montly fee. Same concept of taking a loss on the cell phone, as long as you keep paying your montly charges. Give the product away for free and charge them a montly fee to use it.
All people see is "oh I get a free cell phone" or "ooo I can down load all the music I want". Hold it, what do mean I can't listen to it any more if I stop paying you monthly Mr Soprano?
Plus Apple's delightful policy of "if your hard disk dies, you're free to buy all the music again!" Gee, thanks.
Your insurance should cover the loss of CD's. It might not be worth it unless you lose your whole collection of hundreds of CDs, but it will cover it.
That begs the question... I wonder if it would cover the loss of downloaded music if your hard drive crashed and you say lost $2000 in music? The equivalent of about 133 CDs at $15 each.
Plus Apple's delightful policy of "if your hard disk dies, you're free to buy all the music again!" Gee, thanks.
Quit whining and take some responisibility for backing up your f$%king data.
You mean like VHS?
I think there's an old 8-track in my parents garage somewhere.
But it just makes me want to hold off longer so I really get my money's worth.
That's a game you can play for ever. Just take the plunge and get it over with. Be a good little consumer.
so they are useless to me
So don't buy one then. You know you want one though.
They're just trying to avoid the problem, not solve it. Moving to SHA-512 is not a solution.
Could also be a stop gap solution. At least it will be harder to break in the mean time until a real solution is devised.