Whatever you want to say about the AC, you're still not funny. (I, at least, have mod points and choose not to use them for posts that aren't relatively on-topic.)
$20 for a non-member to play games all day? That's a pretty good deal. The place in the Liberty Tree in Danvers, MA (I don't know if it is still there) was charging $30/day and their hours weren't as long.
In the States we solve that problem by getting a DirecTiVo. However, I see your point. The TiVo takes its input from the cable box (the tuner). Now, If you had 2 cable boxes and one ran to the TiVO and then the TV and the other ran just to the TV, THEN you could watch one program while taping another.
It's a patent pool. It's not just Apple's patents. There's Intel, Texas Instruments, Sony, and a few other companies with relavent patents that all share the royalties.
Hey! If my (MA) tax dollars are paying for this new convention center, I want to at least attend a convention that I want to go to. The Seafood convention is just not my cup of tea.
More hotels rooms are coming online as we speak. Boston's biggest problem is that it closes down at 1:00 AM and it's transit system closes right before that.
Hell there's always "Cold Tea" in Chinatown at 4:30 AM.
A few years ago I was speaking with an American who had been doing missionary work in Brazil. He told me that Brazil tariffs the living sh*t out of computer products entering the country. This, of course, is to help protect Brazil's box makers from predatory pricing or something like that. I don't know if this is still true as this conversation was held 7 or 8 years ago.
There's not a whole lot Apple can do against steep tariffs. Even if Apple were to import the boxes into Brazil at cost, they still would be priced near $3,000.
schadenfreude \SHAHD-n-froy-duh\, noun: A malicious satisfaction in the misfortunes of others.
The historian Peter Gay -- who felt Schadenfreude as a Jewish child in Nazi-era Berlin, watching the Germans lose coveted gold medals in the 1936 Olympics -- has said that it "can be one of the great joys of life." --Edward Rothstein, "Missing the Fun of a Minor Sin." New York Times, February 5, 2000
Often the people Pi met in Mendocino wanted to hear these terrible stories, the personal disasters, or they quoted them back to her from what they'd read, with a certain glitter in their eyes -- giving Pi the chance to wonder again as she once had in a Wittgenstein seminar why there wasn't a word in English for Schadenfreude, that very human pleasure taken in other people's misery. --Sylvia Brownrigg, The Metaphysical Touch
If self-replicating e-commerce baby tycoons get on your nerves, it's schadenfreude time. It's true that the Nasdaq rebounded after its staggering loss Tuesday. Nonetheless, what AP described as "the most volatile day ever for U.S. stocks" left a distinctly bearish aftertaste. --"Market Motion Sickness." The Industry Standard's Media Grok, April 5, 2000
I just picked up Harry Potter (for the GF) and Black Hawk Down (mine) for $16 each at Best Buy. I am more than willing to pay this amount for a new release. Very few DVDs at Best Buy are over $20 and some of the titles that are shouldn't be. I doubt that that is BB's fault but the studio's. BB also has a very large $9.99 and under section.
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Isn't that why MS put the "Quick Format" checkbox in there? :)
Whatever you want to say about the AC, you're still not funny. (I, at least, have mod points and choose not to use them for posts that aren't relatively on-topic.)
--Mike
Damn. I meant to say, they need to PAY to dispose of them.
That's because if they can't sell them they have to dispose of them. Who the hell is going to take something Goodwill doesn't even want?
iDVD is a DVD authoring package. Not a player.
For all of those people scratching their heads going, "But 1 is divisible by itself and 1!" Here is a link.
Mike
$20 for a non-member to play games all day? That's a pretty good deal. The place in the Liberty Tree in Danvers, MA (I don't know if it is still there) was charging $30/day and their hours weren't as long.
--Mike
We have written up the proposals and plans including the standard things (PCs, networking equipment, servers, furniture, fixtures, techs, games, etc.)
I wish the guy who submitted this would come back and clarify.
Mike
I am going to guess somewhere near Mississauga, Ontario, Canada.
In the States we solve that problem by getting a DirecTiVo. However, I see your point. The TiVo takes its input from the cable box (the tuner). Now, If you had 2 cable boxes and one ran to the TiVO and then the TV and the other ran just to the TV, THEN you could watch one program while taping another.
--MIKE
It's $0.25 per device and that money goes to a POOL that includes Apple, Intel, Texas Instruments, Sony, and others.
--Mike
It's a patent pool. It's not just Apple's patents. There's Intel, Texas Instruments, Sony, and a few other companies with relavent patents that all share the royalties.
--Mike
Hey! If my (MA) tax dollars are paying for this new convention center, I want to at least attend a convention that I want to go to. The Seafood convention is just not my cup of tea.
More hotels rooms are coming online as we speak. Boston's biggest problem is that it closes down at 1:00 AM and it's transit system closes right before that.
Hell there's always "Cold Tea" in Chinatown at 4:30 AM.
--Mike
This is why God invented short-term disability insurance. Also, try not to engage in activities that would cramp your work style. :)
--Mike
Funny. I paraphrased what he said. Call it artistic license.
A few years ago I was speaking with an American who had been doing missionary work in Brazil. He told me that Brazil tariffs the living sh*t out of computer products entering the country. This, of course, is to help protect Brazil's box makers from predatory pricing or something like that. I don't know if this is still true as this conversation was held 7 or 8 years ago.
There's not a whole lot Apple can do against steep tariffs. Even if Apple were to import the boxes into Brazil at cost, they still would be priced near $3,000.
--Mike
Set your clock to one year in the future. Launch Quicktime. Close Quicktime. Set clock to correct time. *POOF* no more "Upgrade to PRO" questions.
--Mike
Only the Germans would have such a great word.
Word of the Day for Wednesday May 10, 2000:
schadenfreude \SHAHD-n-froy-duh\, noun:
A malicious satisfaction in the misfortunes of others.
The historian Peter Gay -- who felt Schadenfreude as a Jewish child in Nazi-era Berlin, watching the Germans lose coveted gold medals in the 1936 Olympics -- has said that it "can be one of the great joys of life."
--Edward Rothstein, "Missing the Fun of a Minor Sin." New York Times, February 5, 2000
Often the people Pi met in Mendocino wanted to hear these terrible stories, the personal disasters, or they quoted them back to her from what they'd read, with a certain glitter in their eyes -- giving Pi the chance to wonder again as she once had in a Wittgenstein seminar why there wasn't a word in English for Schadenfreude, that very human pleasure taken in other people's misery.
--Sylvia Brownrigg, The Metaphysical Touch
If self-replicating e-commerce baby tycoons get on your nerves, it's schadenfreude time. It's true that the Nasdaq rebounded after its staggering loss Tuesday. Nonetheless, what AP described as "the most volatile day ever for U.S. stocks" left a distinctly bearish aftertaste.
--"Market Motion Sickness." The Industry Standard's Media Grok, April 5, 2000
Isn't the reason that these things aren't easy now is BECAUSE most people are using Windows?
I just picked up Harry Potter (for the GF) and Black Hawk Down (mine) for $16 each at Best Buy. I am more than willing to pay this amount for a new release. Very few DVDs at Best Buy are over $20 and some of the titles that are shouldn't be. I doubt that that is BB's fault but the studio's.
BB also has a very large $9.99 and under section.
20 GBP is about $35 US? That's expensive.
My Sony 550D does not play anything on CD-R or CD-RW media. It pisses me off. Is there an upgrade I can get for that player?
Don't forget they also make tuna. OK, so they don't make it, they process and can it.
I don't believe that there are even 1000Base-T hubs. It's all switches.
That's nice. How long can my TCP/IP password be?
Kevlar and ultraviolet light do not get along very well.