I had the exact same issue. I bought AppleCare at the time of purchase, then I had a HD problem in the first year of ownership. Apple took THREE WEEKS to replace the HD, delaying work for a few days because they wanted to charge me $700 to replace what they called a "destroyed" Ethernet jack. (That's right -- they wanted to blame an Ethernet jack for a busted hard drive.) The jack worked fine then and it works fine now in daily usage.
I've been at the local (Pittsburgh/Shadyside) Apple store watching as the "geniuses" shamelessly sell AppleCare to people who believe that it will cover their problems. Dell's "CompleteCare" by contrast costs less than AppleCare and covers accidental damage, whereas Apple just throws a latte in your face when you are even potentially in the wrong.
Go east. Ask has maps of nearly all of Europe whereas Google only has a few countries. Google's Japan maps are among the coolest I've seen; Ask can't match them yet.
They also created the 3 1/2" floppy diskette, which (thanks to AOL) was my primary medium of cheap storage for several years. Sony working with Philips developed the CD standard and that really took off.
You can download a public beta of IE7, though of course you can't have both IE7 and IE6 on the same system at the same time. Time to start messing with VMWare/plex86/VirtualPC in that case...
Facebook features a userbase of millions of sticky eyeballs which can be readily monetized using contextual advertising solutions that transcend the superficial and target the user's behavior.
For example, they use their users' Google tracking cookies to determine which web sites they visit. Facebook can then deliver targeted advertisements that result in a very high clickthrough percentage relative to ordinary bannervertising.
Facebook has also enabled rich media advertising for those who have tired of the traditional text and graphical media. A vibrant, full motion advertisement produces far more revenue and recognition.
What I don't get is that the loudest advocates of the Nintendo Revolution are people who have owned every game console made since 1980 yet still yearn to purchase their favorite games all over again.
"Finally, a way to purchase and play old video games on my television using a controller!"
Hi, kettle. Nice to meet you. May I have some soup?
Super Mario Bros. (NES), Super Mario All-Stars (SNES), Super Mario Bros. DX (Game Boy Color), and Super Mario Bros. Classic NES Series (Game Boy Advance) all contain the same Super Mario Bros. game. Super Mario Bros. for Nintendo Revolution will, too.
The Nintendo Revolution is all about "buying the same thing twice." Nintendo has made millions of dollars selling the same games over and over and over again and the Revolution will be no different.
When the Revolution HD+ comes out, you'll have to buy Super Mario Bros. again to enjoy it in 1080p like Miyamoto truly intended.
Microsoft Office is still way ahead of (Open|Neo)Office in terms of speed on the Mac, though Office on Windows is faster still. Office/Mac exposes interfaces like AppleScript that other programs can use, whereas OpenOffice stands alone.
The printable version (pops up "Print" dialog box, which you can safely cancel out of) has no such distractions.
Meanwhile, I've noticed that many of the people (not you necessarily) who complain loudly about cluttered web pages run Firefox with dozens of extensions and have at least 5 tabs open at any given point not to mention all the ultra-important widgets that tell them exactly what the state of the universe is and do I have mail already. I prefer to keep things simple.
Do you think Gmail has enough hard drive space to provide 2+ GB to every user, or that your bank has enough cash to let every customer instantly drain their account to nothing, or that your DSL provider can let every customer download at (your supposed speed) Mbps simultaneously?
Sure. About 10 years ago, Geocities only asked that you put a link to geocities.com in your page somewhere. There were no ads at all on pages, unless you count everyone's AllAdvantage.com pyramid scheme banners that they voluntarily added to their pages. Just because Google doesn't have ads on Googlecities now doesn't mean that they'll never have ads.
At least for the US version, TurboTax for Mac costs exactly the same as the Windows version. Every TurboTax disc includes the Windows and Mac versions. The only difference I've seen is that some of the bundled apps (like ItsDeductible) are only available in web-based form to TurboTax Mac users. The files are even compatible across platforms. I just wish I could say the same about Quicken. My Quicken for Windows file would be decimated if I were to convert it to Quicken for Mac.
If you want to use the "other truly open format" your only choice right now is OpenOffice.org, and boy oh boy does it ever suck for the Mac. Official OpenOffice.org requires X to run and loads hundreds of megs of crap into memory even if you want to use just one program. NeoOffice/J, a popular OpenOffice.org variant, is packed up in Cocoa and Java into a monstrosity that neither feels, looks, nor acts like a Mac OS X application -- though it doesn't require X. Microsoft Office for Mac OS X works okay, but its lack of Cocoa bindings means it doesn't support all the newest and greatest tricks. Office/Mac from my experience lags behind Office/Win in terms of features and speed. Microsoft haters like to point out that Office burrows into Windows, but Office/Mac throws some extra processes into the mix and still manages to handle like a wet sponge.
Lox is smoked salmon fillet that has been cured and then often cold-smoked. The cold smoking does not cook the fish, resulting in its characteristic smooth texture, similar to the raw product.
Publish your free/busy times on a (WebDAV|FTP|NFS) share and let people subscribe to them. Free/busy times are part of the iCalendar standard and can be published from and read by Outlook; other programs could support them but not all have jumped on board.
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I had the exact same issue. I bought AppleCare at the time of purchase, then I had a HD problem in the first year of ownership. Apple took THREE WEEKS to replace the HD, delaying work for a few days because they wanted to charge me $700 to replace what they called a "destroyed" Ethernet jack. (That's right -- they wanted to blame an Ethernet jack for a busted hard drive.) The jack worked fine then and it works fine now in daily usage.
I've been at the local (Pittsburgh/Shadyside) Apple store watching as the "geniuses" shamelessly sell AppleCare to people who believe that it will cover their problems. Dell's "CompleteCare" by contrast costs less than AppleCare and covers accidental damage, whereas Apple just throws a latte in your face when you are even potentially in the wrong.
The Bang & Olufsen BeoSound 2 has no screen and no memory (SD card sold separately) and costs about $500. It's awesome.
Go east. Ask has maps of nearly all of Europe whereas Google only has a few countries. Google's Japan maps are among the coolest I've seen; Ask can't match them yet.
Wow... unRAR an EXE file? I never would have thought of such things. Thank you much!
They also created the 3 1/2" floppy diskette, which (thanks to AOL) was my primary medium of cheap storage for several years. Sony working with Philips developed the CD standard and that really took off.
You can download a public beta of IE7, though of course you can't have both IE7 and IE6 on the same system at the same time. Time to start messing with VMWare/plex86/VirtualPC in that case...
No. You don't owe income or sales taxes on things you don't sell.
Facebook features a userbase of millions of sticky eyeballs which can be readily monetized using contextual advertising solutions that transcend the superficial and target the user's behavior.
For example, they use their users' Google tracking cookies to determine which web sites they visit. Facebook can then deliver targeted advertisements that result in a very high clickthrough percentage relative to ordinary bannervertising.
Facebook has also enabled rich media advertising for those who have tired of the traditional text and graphical media. A vibrant, full motion advertisement produces far more revenue and recognition.
OK good idea.
(I own all 4 Super Mario Advance games and Super Mario Bros. DX, having spent $150 in software alone to play five old Mario games. I suck.)
What I don't get is that the loudest advocates of the Nintendo Revolution are people who have owned every game console made since 1980 yet still yearn to purchase their favorite games all over again.
"Finally, a way to purchase and play old video games on my television using a controller!"
I envy Nintendo.
Hi, kettle. Nice to meet you. May I have some soup?
Super Mario Bros. (NES), Super Mario All-Stars (SNES), Super Mario Bros. DX (Game Boy Color), and Super Mario Bros. Classic NES Series (Game Boy Advance) all contain the same Super Mario Bros. game. Super Mario Bros. for Nintendo Revolution will, too.
The Nintendo Revolution is all about "buying the same thing twice." Nintendo has made millions of dollars selling the same games over and over and over again and the Revolution will be no different.
When the Revolution HD+ comes out, you'll have to buy Super Mario Bros. again to enjoy it in 1080p like Miyamoto truly intended.
Google already sells Flash ads for use on AdSense web sites. I get the idea that the whole "minimalism" thing on *.google.* is just to keep the illusion of just-do-search alive.
Microsoft Office is still way ahead of (Open|Neo)Office in terms of speed on the Mac, though Office on Windows is faster still. Office/Mac exposes interfaces like AppleScript that other programs can use, whereas OpenOffice stands alone.
Same reason 3com.com, 37signals.com, and 23.com exist: the RFC was a Request For Comments, and some people commented "no."
Like Google News, but with video instead of text.
Dude, the blogosphere is all over the metaverse. Didn't you read that JaMoBlog post that got pingbacked on HuPo? It made MeFi's FP yday.
The printable version (pops up "Print" dialog box, which you can safely cancel out of) has no such distractions.
Meanwhile, I've noticed that many of the people (not you necessarily) who complain loudly about cluttered web pages run Firefox with dozens of extensions and have at least 5 tabs open at any given point not to mention all the ultra-important widgets that tell them exactly what the state of the universe is and do I have mail already. I prefer to keep things simple.
Do you think Gmail has enough hard drive space to provide 2+ GB to every user, or that your bank has enough cash to let every customer instantly drain their account to nothing, or that your DSL provider can let every customer download at (your supposed speed) Mbps simultaneously?
Oversubscription is your friend.
Sure. About 10 years ago, Geocities only asked that you put a link to geocities.com in your page somewhere. There were no ads at all on pages, unless you count everyone's AllAdvantage.com pyramid scheme banners that they voluntarily added to their pages. Just because Google doesn't have ads on Googlecities now doesn't mean that they'll never have ads.
At least for the US version, TurboTax for Mac costs exactly the same as the Windows version. Every TurboTax disc includes the Windows and Mac versions. The only difference I've seen is that some of the bundled apps (like ItsDeductible) are only available in web-based form to TurboTax Mac users. The files are even compatible across platforms. I just wish I could say the same about Quicken. My Quicken for Windows file would be decimated if I were to convert it to Quicken for Mac.
If you want to use the "other truly open format" your only choice right now is OpenOffice.org, and boy oh boy does it ever suck for the Mac. Official OpenOffice.org requires X to run and loads hundreds of megs of crap into memory even if you want to use just one program. NeoOffice/J, a popular OpenOffice.org variant, is packed up in Cocoa and Java into a monstrosity that neither feels, looks, nor acts like a Mac OS X application -- though it doesn't require X. Microsoft Office for Mac OS X works okay, but its lack of Cocoa bindings means it doesn't support all the newest and greatest tricks. Office/Mac from my experience lags behind Office/Win in terms of features and speed. Microsoft haters like to point out that Office burrows into Windows, but Office/Mac throws some extra processes into the mix and still manages to handle like a wet sponge.
Lox is smoked salmon fillet that has been cured and then often cold-smoked. The cold smoking does not cook the fish, resulting in its characteristic smooth texture, similar to the raw product.
Publish your free/busy times on a (WebDAV|FTP|NFS) share and let people subscribe to them. Free/busy times are part of the iCalendar standard and can be published from and read by Outlook; other programs could support them but not all have jumped on board.
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The footnote on Page 2 is the price of the ticket.